should I get a laptop with a Celeron processor?

[SubZeroX]

How much difference would I notice if I get a Celeron laptop vs. a P4 laptop? I don't play games and I'll use it mostly for web surfing, word processing, and watching divx movies. Is the Celeron good enough for divx?

 

[FoBoT]

for that stuff its fine
you won't be able to tell the difference

 

[Dragnov]

Not 100% sure, but I think the Celeron doesn't have the speedstep technology where it will clock down to save energy. And most Celeron laptops come w/ a NiMH battery I believe. Just something to note.

 

[hans007]

depends if its p4 celeron or tualatin celeron.


tualatin celeron might actually run faster than the p4 on the low end p4 side (the newest celerons were all 133 bus with 256k cache, just like a coppermine, so compared to a p4 1.5 or 1.6-1.7 laptop a 1.2 celeron wouldnt be bad).


i think the celeron-128 p4 based out like the 1.4 and 1.5 might not be a good choice, as memory speeds on laptops tend to be ddr200 not ddr266 etc, and the less cache will really hurt it compared to a 512k cash p4-m or northwood desktop based laptop with also 512k cache because of latency issues. basically the same reasons as for why the celeron p4 on desktops isnt that great either but maginified because of ddr200 and not ddr266 on some of these systems (i know the dell inspirons only run at ddr200). basically any p4 will own a celeron (i.e. a celeron 1.8 is slower than a p4 1.4 williamette in desktop benchmarks, and would be more so than a p4 northwood in say a laptop . so a celeron 1.4 128k laptop cpu, probably would get toasted by any p4 and most p3-850-900mhz class CPUS, except on floating point for the p3s )

 

[RossMAN]

My Compaq Presario 1500T has a Celeron 1.4-M, runs great, doesn't feel sluggish at all, it's efficient with battery life and dissipates less heat than a P4 desktop CPU would.

hans007 - How would I know which kind of Celeron I have?

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
My Compaq Presario 1500T has a Celeron 1.4-M, runs great, doesn't feel sluggish at all, it's efficient with battery life and dissipates less heat than a P4 desktop CPU would.

hans007 - How would I know which kind of Celeron I have?

you've got a p4 celeron.


the p3 based tualatin one is only up to 1.2 ghz at 133 bus.


luckily for you you hvae a p4-m and on the 1500t series, they only have desktop CPUs in the p4 models. however the celeron is a mobile CPU oddly and you can upgrade it or at least theoretically should be able to just go on ebay and buy a new p4 1.6 or p4 1.7 cpu for like $80 and pop it in. on compaq'd usually its a matter of popping the keyboard off, removing a heatspreader and you'd done. something like, anand's method of taking the 2800t apart in his review. if its running fine and you're happy no need to. but i'd imagine a celeron 1.4 would benchmark in the range of a p3-800 in desktop apps. then again a p3-800 is probably fast enough for anyone.

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
My Compaq Presario 1500T has a Celeron 1.4-M, runs great, doesn't feel sluggish at all, it's efficient with battery life and dissipates less heat than a P4 desktop CPU would.

hans007 - How would I know which kind of Celeron I have?

I think WCPUID could tell you. It ID's my laptop's P4 as a mobile processor. You should be able to determine what type of mobile celeron it is, either tualatin or p4 based.

 

[RossMAN]

Thanks again hans007, that makes sense.

Kaervak - Cool, I'll find that app and d/l it.

 

[weezergirl]

Originally posted by: SubZeroX
How much difference would I notice if I get a Celeron laptop vs. a P4 laptop? I don't play games and I'll use it mostly for web surfing, word processing, and watching divx movies. Is the Celeron good enough for divx?

I basically do all of those things with my celeron laptop. works fine! When watching divx, I can barely make it through the whole movie on a fully charged battery. Luckily I have an extra one. 🙂 Usually I just plug my laptop in though, unless i'm flying.

 

[FrustratedUser]

For that kind of usage it will be EXTREMELY fine.

Heck, I don't understand the worries. I do just that and some RtCW on a 500MHz Celeron.
DivX is not choppy and RtCW plays just fine even if it's only 640 x 480 res. Still looks good.

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Thanks again hans007, that makes sense.

Kaervak - Cool, I'll find that app and d/l it.

Here's a direct link to it.

 

[SubZeroX]

While we're on the subject of laptops, should I get the 3 year warranty? It costs $199.

Thanks weezergirl! Based on your experiences with a Celery lappy I'll most likely get one.🙂

Nice new avatar by the way...but why??!

 

[thomsbrain]

actually i'm pretty sure the t-celerys went up to 1.3 GHz.

 

[BlamoHammer]

Originally posted by: SubZeroX
While we're on the subject of laptops, should I get the 3 year warranty? It costs $199.

Thanks weezergirl! Based on your experiences with a Celery lappy I'll most likely get one.🙂

Nice new avatar by the way...but why??!

Yes buy the warranty.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
actually i'm pretty sure the t-celerys went up to 1.3 GHz.

they did on desktops , but the mobile one did not. the tcelery desktop only has 128k cache and 100 bus, and the notebook version had 256k and a 133 bus though.