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the celeron m

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nellienelson1

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what is the celeron m like, i'm meaning the ones based on the dothan cores and such like, from what i can gather they just have smaller L2 cache, so are they still quick and efficient like the pentium m that they are based on.

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Not really.... In my experience with them, their (full)boot and login times are terrible, and over-all performance sucks. It's just fine if you are looking for a cheaper lappy, and are going to use it for basic groupware/internet/office apps.

In all honesty, adding system memory would probably help the cleron M's quite a bit- though I haven't tried it.

Remember... it's the cache on the Pentium M platform that truly makes for the performance of the CPU. I would recommend buying a full fledged pentium M at a slower clock rate and similar value before buying a higher clocked pentium M celeron.
 
I *HAVE* used one, and it doesn't suck like a desktop celeron (Not "D") does!
It has 2x the cache and much better performance than a regular celery... still, it's hardly worth the effort unless it's super cheap. It would be low-temp though....

It's almost as good as a similar-clock Northwood P4.
 
The Celeron M is based on the Pentium M and is far better than any other celeron save the D version for the desktop, the Celeron M is basicly a bananis Pentium M w/ less cache and some power managment features disabled. it performs almost the same as a Banais core Pentium M at the same clock speed.
 
I ran some benches on a Celeron M 330 laptop in a store, and its SANDRA CPU scores came out to be around that of a P4 running around 2.0GHz or so. That's a pretty respectable performance out of a laptop that I've seen on sale for as low as $600.

Any long bootup/login times that you might see on a Celeron-M laptop is probably more due to the 4200 RPM hard drive you'll find on most cheap laptops. The low amount of memory that is typical for a Celeron-M laptop doesn't help much, either, since it is very easy to run out of 256MB of physical RAM and start hitting you swapfile.
 
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