Celeron M or Pentium M

[Illusio]

My girlfriend is going to be getting a cheap-o dell laptop. The options are for a Intel® Celeron® M Processor 360 (1.40 GHz/1MB Cache/400MHz FSB) or a
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (1.73GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB) for an extra $150.

I haven't bought a PC in a while, so I'm not sure if its worth the money.

She'll mainly be using it for email, web surfing, office apps and some Autocad and photoshop work.

Any suggestions?

 

[eLiu]

I'm pretty sure the Celeron doesn't have the full speed-step capability...in other words, the Pentium M will give you significantly longer battery life. And I don't think it really costs that much more.

I'd go with the Pentium M.

Edit: Not to say that $150 is an insignificant amount of money, but over the course of a couple years, it'll go toward speeding things up and generally improving your computing experience.

 

[Bateluer]

I'd go with the Pentium M as well, provided it won't break your budget. The faster Pentium M will probably be advantageous when using AutoCAD and photoshop, as will having a healthy amount of RAM.

 

[simms]

P-M FTW

 

[cheesehead]

The Pentium-M has much better battery life and is a good deal faster.

 

[corkyg]

Cheap = Celeron. M = quality.

 

[nortexoid]

Corky, your formulas makes no sense. You are saying that Cheap = quality, but people equate cheap with low quality. Take back your calculator.

The Pentium Celeron M is basically garbage wrapped in ceramics. Or maybe it is ceramics wrapped in garbage. I can't really remember right now. At any rate, I would opt for the Pentium M if you wish to compute problems in polynomial, rather than exponential or super-polynomial, time. I am NP-complete.

 

[ShellGuy]

Go for the P-m not the C-m. and you will love it.


Will G.

 

[Gibson486]

It's for his GF. Unless she wants awsome battery life, there really is no reasn for her to spend the extra $150. AutoCAD may stress it, but it runs fine on 800Mhz computers.