Celeron 600 or P3 600

[Clocker]

Im going to buy a dell laptopn inspiron 3800 this weekend. But I want to know if the performance between these two processors is a big difference. Especially since dell celeron usses 100bus instead 66 on dell notebook systems.

The advantage of the celery is
properly longer battery life due to less wattage requirements.

The P3 has more cache

However, my only concern is that I want to play mpeg4 videos will the celeron be too stressed. Doesnt dvd require more cache to perform better?

Does anyone know?


Also, by the way buying a laptop from dell right now till oct 25 is agreat deal. I cant find similar configutrations that is even close to the price. Im talking about at least 250 in savings. My advice buy the system with less ram as possible, the ram upgrade is a rip u can dio it yourself.

Right now I spending less than 1500 for a 14.1 scree 10gig harddrive etc.

Charles

 

[Zenophobe]

difference on the laptops is not that great. I have a PIII 650 speedstep laptop from dell love it.. go with the p3 better all around

 

[squirrel dog]

p3 for sure.

 

[Syborg1211]

Definitely p3, it will be able to handle the dvds better, but i hope you get an mpeg decoder in that thing since 600 mhz is not a lot to run dvds on software decoding.

 

[Howard]

LOL! If Dell uses a 100MHz FSB in their Celeron notebooks, they are overclocking! HEHE

 

[sciencewhiz]

ALL laptop celerons use the 100mhz bus. The only difference between the laptop PIII and Celeron is that the Celerons have half the cache and don't have speed-step. (ok that is 2)

 

[Crypticburn]

Damnit, someone should have told my p3 450 that it couldnt decode dvds with software.... WAKE UP, 400mhz is more than you need to decode dvds with software, hardware decoders sometimes are better for outputting to a tv or if your computer is already stressed, but most people at max will use 10-15% of their processing power on average.
Syborg1211, no offense meant, but 600hmz is more than enought to use software to decode dvds, and Dell or any other OEM wont include hardware decoding except at a premium cost... and btw, who cares what your processor can do, just put what it is doing... b/c saying: my p3 450#600mhz default voltage, but can do XXXmhz at X.XXv is dumb, IMHO

Crypticburn

 

[Clocker]

Well first DVD is MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 is a different compression scheme that take more raw power.

Also battery life is important to me and I thought maybe the celeron uses less power. (at least significantly less).

Any thoughts
Charles

 

[Syborg1211]

ok, sorry, i have a p3 550 and it had a couple blurbs here and there so i thought that was two blurbs too many.