CPU info.- Celeron 2.4 vs Intel P4

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You get what you pay for.
The Celeron is a total dog.
The newer celeron is based on the
exact same northwood core as the
P4. Intel just leaves a mask step
out when they produce the chip
and you come out with a P4 with
most of the L2 cache disabled.
It cannot be enabled, I recently
built a new rig based on a 2gigahertz
celeron. 2gig is pretty fast at this time
but when I tried to game on it Bf1942
the lag in multiplay would bring
the frame rate down to 6 and 7fps
on servers with 50 players or more.
I got pissed built a new machine
with a 2600AMD with a Barton core.
Now I get no lag on 64slot servers
an lots of people will be screaming
about the lag while I walk up and cap
them cause they are lagged to a standstill
and I am free of any lag
Amazing what 640k of L2 cache will do
for performance.
I would not upgrade the laptop unless
you are going to game on it.
 
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
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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.
 
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
 
ancra,

Please tell me more why not a Dell? Which one you prefer for around $700-800
(college already cost a lot).
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No, I won't tell you :-)
The reasons are not worthy your consideration, as I told you. I
shouldn't have mentioned it at all.

Dell might be a good choice in your case.
(disclaimer: I don't actually know that, of course, since I don't have
any $700 Dell laptop, but Dell's prices are good)

I was fooling around with the idea of an older lap top. But buying a
used one is not attractive. People don't have the sense to sell them
as dirt cheap as they should, meaning they're usually grossly
overpriced. OS and hd are probably a complete mess. And a new display
is much better. And so are the new OSes. Then there's the battery.
Naw, if you don't have an old one to hand down, which was really what
I was suggesting, there's some good reasons to buy new.

ancra
 
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