Sempron vs Celeron M

[Kelemvor]

How do these two types of Processors comapre? I'm looking for a budget laptop for internet, email, etc and see most with a Celeron M and some with the Sempron.

If they were both the same Ghz rating, what sort of performance difference would there be or would it really not be noticable?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

go with a celeron M. You can at least upgrade the CPU later if need be. I know the compaq that's like $500 or $600 wit ha celeron M 440 is upgradeable to a Core2Duo

 

[Kelemvor]

I'm not really worried about upgrading since I'll probably just put XP on it anyway and it won't be doing any gaming or number crunching. heh.

 

[Maximilian]

If your not number crunching or gaming then performance is largely irrelivent, check out the power consumption of the two, i know the celeron M lacks the pentium M's power saving features, dunno about the sempron though, power consumption should be your main concern.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Soviet
If your not number crunching or gaming then performance is largely irrelevant, check out the power consumption of the two, i know the celeron M lacks the pentium M's power saving features, dunno about the sempron though, power consumption should be your main concern.

I will be checking that out but wanted to first narrow down if either the Sempron or Celeron M had any definite speed advantage that I needed to be concerned about since laptops with either chips are almost identical in price.

But if there's no real speed difference, then I will put more weight on battery life and things like that as well.

Thanks.

 

[f4phantom2500]

go with the celeron m 4xx series over 3xx, the 4xx is basically a core solo with less cache. much better than a sempron or celeron m 3xx. actually it's probably comparable to a turion 64.

 

[Rottie]

I think Sempron is faster than Celeron because Sempron is really Althon XP rebranded name.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: Rottie
I think Sempron is faster than Celeron because Sempron is really Althon XP rebranded name.

only the socket a semprons; the 754 and 939 semprons are neutered a64's, but he's talking about the mobile ones. idk if the mobile sempy's are neutered turions or what, but i do know that the celeron m 4xx's are much better, as they are core solo's with less cache.

 

[lobbyone]

Real life comparison with my Gateway and my friends HP, I can get almost 3 hours of battery life with my Celeron M while my friend has a max of 1 hour and 30 minutes. All this is just web surfing, word documents, bunch of basic stuff, no videos or gaming, both equipped with a 6-cell battery.