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| Thread ID: 42213 | 2004-02-04 04:52:00 | Advice for Buying Laptop $1500 - $1700 | Will Hunt (3655) | Press F1 |
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| 212753 | 2004-02-11 02:10:00 | The dse model has a celeron 2.2ghz in it,the qmb model has a p4 2.6 in her. Whats a celeron 2.2 performence relative to? A sack of potatoes? I would not touch anything with a celeron chip in it,and the price difference to get a p4 is very little. |
metla (154) | ||
| 212754 | 2004-02-11 02:46:00 | Probably... As far as I know Celerons are only good for people who have little money and/or overclocking ;-) Forrest. |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 212755 | 2004-02-11 02:52:00 | A celeron is simply the worst performing widely available cpu on the market,in recent testing the 2.4 celeron was far slower then a duron 1.6 cpu. Whats the point? They should be withdrawn from the market. |
metla (154) | ||
| 212756 | 2004-02-11 03:20:00 | Is the different CPU worth the extra $200, + $25 postage), and the lack of being able to get a 5 year warrenty? I'm pretty much a low end user. I want the laptop for writing, playing movies, and playing the few games. Because of the graphics situation, it wouldn't run high end stuff like BF1942, so the extra processer spped probably wouldn't be that advantagous...? Thankyou! |
Will Hunt (3655) | ||
| 212757 | 2004-02-11 03:25:00 | Well,thats a tough call and one only you can really decide upon based on what you want. Personally i would grab the p4,but then im not you so it doesnt really apply..... |
metla (154) | ||
| 212758 | 2004-02-11 03:43:00 | Quite apart from its merit (or otherwise) a sa CPU, Celeron had to be one of the dumbest names Intel came up with. Its so weak sounding. I mean if you knew nothing about the chips, but someone offered you a: a] Pentium b]Xeon or c] Celeron which would you go for. Pentium sounds solid and reliable. Xeon sounds spacey and exciting. But Celeron sounds like an exotic vegetable. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 212759 | 2004-02-11 04:13:00 | But you want a computer to have some crunch. Although the name is already taken, a better name for the Palladium nonsense would be Pajero. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 212760 | 2004-02-11 07:11:00 | Theres always second hand... although this probably could be a bit dodgy... Personally i would go with the P4, although hotter/heavier etc etc... performance out of it would be worth it. - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 212761 | 2004-02-11 07:31:00 | I seems to me that the only reason for more processor power is to play games. because of the limit of the graphics card, i'm not going to beable to play powerful games. I will not buy a 2/h laptop, becuase i have had bad experiances with that. are there still other factors or models i should consider ? |
Will Hunt (3655) | ||
| 212762 | 2004-02-11 07:39:00 | > which would you go for. Pentium sounds solid and reliable. Xeon sounds spacey and exciting. But Celeron sounds like an exotic vegetable. Lmao! I'd go with the xeon myself. I probably wouldn't go for second hand computers as they come with all sorts of problems. (Why else would they be second hand??). Most people don't really need the portability of a laptop - they just get it because it makes them look cool. Its a fashion statement. :p |
PoWa (203) | ||
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