How does a P4 2.80 GHz compare to a Celeron 2.8 GHz?

[crimson117]

How does a P4 2.80 GHz compare to a Celeron 2.8 GHz (in a laptop)? Will there be any noticable difference? She wouldn't do anything more complex than a small spreadsheet or word document or powerpoint presentation, and check email. Should she spend the $100 on a P4, or is a celeron really good enough?

 

[Cheetah8799]

Go for the Celeron. I bought a Dell laptop for a friend, it had a Celeron 2ghz or something. Worked great for him, college student, writing papers, downloading mp3s, watching dvds, etc...

 

[Yanagi]

the celeron should cover her needs if thats all she's gonna do.

 

[crimson117]

Great, thanks. She's on an old 300 MHz PII currently, so anything would be an improvement . I'll save her the $100 with the celeron.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: crimson117
Great, thanks. She's on an old 300 MHz PII currently, so anything would be an improvement . I'll save her the $100 with the celeron.

LOL! That'll be one hell of an upgrade!

She can use the $100 to buy a nice laptop bag, or maybe an external mouse/keyboard for it. Maybe some headphones or speakers too.

 

[MichaelZ]

for basic stuff like office and web browsing, yep it'll do.

 

[kef7]

Wife had been bugging me to get her a laptop so I bought her a toshiba s121 with celeron 2.8s back in June. For basic stuff like you mentioned it is fine (haven't tried powerpoint yet); olders games like icewind dale2 play decent as well.

Biggest complaint so far is very slow boot up time; celeron gets some blame for that but also slower hd and tons of pre-loaded crap toshiba installed.