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Is a Celeron really that bad?

UDT89

UDT89

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I was asked to find a laptop for my soon to be brother in law who graduated WVU this past week. The budget is very small, $300, and its tough not trying to get the best but at that price point my hands are tied. He will mostly use it for watching movies, itunes, music, internet, etc. Nothing crazy.

My local Microcenter has a Toshiba for $279 that is a celeron with ddr3.....but am i wasting my time with Celeron? Or is that what it has to be because of the budget? Oh i wish it had hdmi out.....but i think thats out of our range too.

Here is the link:

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0356534
 
Celeron's are the bottom of the bin essentially, bump up to about 350-400 level and you can get a decent laptop (C-50 or E-350 from AMD)
 
Dont under estimate the newer generation Celeron dual cores if thats what your looking at...? The T-series (3000, 3100, 3300, 3500) perform just about as good as the C2D T5XXX-T7XXX series... If its the single cores then what mnewsham said they are bottom of barrel and not worth even considering...

Bought one of those MSI A5000 laptops a little over a year ago with the T3100 cpu and its still serves her quite well for basicly what your asking for and she plays her little games and stuff so she is happy...
 
Bartman39 said:
Bought one of those MSI A5000 laptops a little over a year ago with the T3100 cpu and its still serves her quite well for basicly what your asking for and she plays her little games and stuff so she is happy...
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Same here, those are/were nice little laptops. You can get an aftermarket BIOS that lets you overclock too. (See the thread on SD about them.)

But the single-core Celerons are basically garbage. Anything single-core is garbage for watching YouTube or Hulu full-screen, you need a dual-core or an AMD graphics chipset like the HD3200 or HD4200 or HD4250.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Same here, those are/were nice little laptops. You can get an aftermarket BIOS that lets you overclock too. (See the thread on SD about them.)

But the single-core Celerons are basically garbage. Anything single-core is garbage for watching YouTube or Hulu full-screen, you need a dual-core or an AMD graphics chipset like the HD3200 or HD4200 or HD4250.
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Or an AMD fusion APU.
 
Bartman39 said:
Dont under estimate the newer generation Celeron dual cores if thats what your looking at...?
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There are dual core Arrandale Celerons for notebooks. Heck, Intel even lists a Sandy Bridge Celeron with dual cores for notebooks.

In any given "generation" the lowest end are Celerons and right above them are Pentiums. Does this mean Celerons are bad? Only when compared to their higher end contemporaries.

These modern dual core Celerons aren't as terrible as you'd think. I think it really improved once Intel got past Netburst, with the Core 2 family of Celerons.
 
A single-core 2.3 GHz Celeron is still going to be faster than an Atom, even a dual-core one. So actually you can do worse 🙂
 
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