Celeron OK?

[deepakvrao]

I know this has been probably beaten to death but I have not found much on search. I have a n AMD Athlon 2400+ laptop and it compares well with my P4 desktop. I need to buy a laptop for my dad, whose only use is e-mail/word/excel and surfing the net. In India AMD laptops have not yet made much of a presence and P4/Centrino are expensive. Would a celeron be adequate and if so what clock speed is required?

 

[kuljc]

So is it immpossible to get him an amd laptop? cause that would be your best deal and give you better performance than celeron. If not celeron should be fine for what he has to do, as long as battery life isn't a big issue. But if he wants more battery life you can get a celeron-m.

 

[slyedog]

had a compaq with the celeron M. very nice and fast. cheap also

 

[iamme]

a celeron will run e-mail, office, and web surfing just fine.

(btw, i have a PIII 1GHz laptop for sale in my sig 😀)

 

[deepakvrao]

Thanks all

 

[deejayshakur]

personally, i would stay away from the celeron but the celeron-m is pretty adequate and prolongs battery life decently.

 

Regardless of what some people here perceive to be the case, clock for clock, the Celeron-M performs virtually identical to the Pentium-M in all situations except battery life.

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: toothykal
Regardless of what some people here perceive to be the case, clock for clock, the Celeron-M performs virtually identical to the Pentium-M in all situations except battery life.

Sources?

 

Toms Hardware has a benchmark article from a few months back.

[edit] removed smart-a$$ google remark.