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ancra,

Please tell me more why not a Dell? Which one you prefer for around $700-800
(college already cost a lot).

Thanks

Hai Pham


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> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:41:19 -0400, "Hai Pham" <haipham@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I think about to a Dell notebook for my daughter this year, first year in
> >college. I believe the laptop is slow anyway so is it worth to pay
$100-150
> >more P4 ? For school work I believe Celeron should be good enough? Any
> >suggestion?
> >
> >Thanks
>
> Yes, it could be good enough.
> But, if a 2.4 Celeron is "ok", then so is a lot of stuff.
> What I mean is that if you're running applications where the
> impressing _slooowwnessss_ of the P4-Celeron is not really a problem,
> like a bit of an office kit, web, email, etc, - then you can also get
> away with a lot of old things, like PIIs, K6s, PIIIs, older Celerons.
> And actually, a late PIII, or late 1 - 1.4GHz old Celeron is probably
> just as fast.
>
> An interesting observation here: The slowest available AMD cpu, the
> 1.6GHz Duron (some $30), is _faster_ than fastest 2.8GHz P4-Celeron.
>
> But In favor of a new machine (Celeron), would be the rest of the
> specs, - hd, ram, graphics, display, OS. Also, you should have better
> media performance in that Celeron than in older cpus.
>
> Adding some confusion, is that Intel intends to market Centrino core
> cpus as "Celerons" (just for mobile). I wouldn't do that if I were
> head of Intel marketing, because the Celeron name is a bit damaged by
> now. Anyway, these Centrino-Celerons will probably rock! I've seen
> some preliminary benchmarks, and they were quite good. The
> Centrino-Celeron doesn't look like it will give much away to the
> normal Centrino.
>
> ancra
>
> P.S. personally, I'd never buy either a P4-Celeron or a Dell, but
> never mind, that decision is probably based on things you wouldn't
> consider.
>