Best bang for the buck laptop CPU?

[JEDI]

With the release of Intel's 3rd Generation iCores (Ivy Bridge), is it still the sandy bridge based Celeron/pentium (B8xx or higher) as best bang for the buck?

if not, then what?


btw- why did intel even use the Celeron name for B8xx chips?
the only diff i see is the processor speed? (celeron = 1.x ghz, pentium = 2.x ghz)
cache is the same.
(in the past celerons had less cache in addition to lower clock speed.)

 

[infoiltrator]

At the moment the I3 2350M and I5 2450M are available on discounted laptops offering good CPU performance, acceptable graphics and battery life.

Ivy Bridge does better depending on implimentation, but is "too new" to expect deep discounts.

Nothing wrong with Celeron/Pentium, just the prices do not justify their purchase over the newer models unless you "love" one particular implimentation.
SB battery life usually beats out the older CPUs.

 

[cl-jeffrey]

The best bang for the buck cpu would be the i5 and i7 sandy bridge because battery performance will be better than the old cpu's.
If you are looking for bang for your buck you need to look at prices as the only difference between the two. If you look at a 3rd gen cpu laptop it's only about $800 dollars. When you look at a 2nd gen cpu laptop it's only $600 dollars. When you look at the pentium B cpu's it's about $400.

So the only difference between upgrading would be about $200 dollars more. So which ever cpu laptop you choose you may wan to ask yourself for just $200 dollars more I can get a better model.

Happy hunting.