Should I even consider a Celeron M?

[Youhou]

I'm looking at the Sony Vaio A series and I'm thinking of picking the Celeron M 1.4 to save $300 over the Pentium M 1.5. Battery life isn't a big deal I'm usually plugged in, benchmarks are probably good enough for the price difference, but I know nothing about heat issues it may have though someone told me the heat should be the same as the Pentium M anyway. I've read the reviews but has anyone used a Celeron M and can tell me how it feels in terms of performance compared to Pentium M or any other CPU?

 

[Corporate Thug]

from what i understand celeron M are only about 10% slower than the P4

 

[Accord99]

Power dissipation of the Celeron-M at full load should be similar to the Pentium-M if not lower; its the power dissipation at idle which is higher due to the lack of Enhanced SpeedStep. The difference is something like 4W. It's not much but when a typical Pentium-M based laptop is using only 12-18W on idle, you can see a 25% decline in battery life in typical usage.

 

[Youhou]

Originally posted by: shady06
from what i understand celeron M are only about 10% slower than the P4

Slower than if the P4 were also a 1.4 Ghz?

 

[Accord99]

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040309/centrino-07.html

 

[Youhou]

Originally posted by: Accord99
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040309/centrino-07.html

I've read that, its just that he brought up Pentium 4 and I don't remember any comparisons to P4. I'm also trying to get some second opinions on whether or not its worth saving $300.

 

[VTEC01EX]

If you're usually plugged in, you'll never notice the difference. Spend the $300 on something nice.

 

[Youhou]

Originally posted by: VTEC01EX
If you're usually plugged in, you'll never notice the difference. Spend the $300 on something nice.

Thanks for the vote of confidence

I've been doing some looking around and for some reason this Celeron M 1.4 Ghz has 1mb of L2 cache in the tech specs at Sony Thinking this might certainly be a typo or mistake, I find this on Anandtech.

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.html?i=2048

Anyway, thanks for the input, its helped, I have a few more days left to decide between the Sony Vaio A or a Fujitsu Lifebook C.

 

[VTEC01EX]

My Fujitsu P-150MMX laptop just won't die. They seem to build some amazing quality machines. Good luck with that choice!

 

[Budmantom]

Spend the extra $300 on more memory.


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