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Subject:RE: Celeron vs Pentium for a TWer's laptop From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:35:31 -0500
Hallo:
It's a shame you're stuck on a laptop. From a desktop perspective:
Pentium 4s offer a tonne of distinct advantages over what has come before,
including a huge increase in front-sided bus speed, cache speed, etc. I
recommend you wait until you can afford a Pentium 4. Currently, for example,
Gateway 2000 has Pentium 4 systems for a little less than $3k. Celerons are
done. Unless you want to get into overclocking (on a laptop,. don't even
try, the heat'll kill ya), the bang-for-the-buck you get out of overclocking
a celeron is huge (and they are stable) go with a P3. The PIII 733, and 866
seem like worthwhile chips, from a speed for cost perspective.
However, for a laptop look into a PIII with speedstep technology, that slows
processor speed to give you more battery life. Aside from upgradeability and
longevity, the problem with laptops is their substandard graphics which take
us back four years . . .. If you can, wait until nVidia or Matrox or someone
other than ATI starts making graphics cards for laptops. If you have to go
laptop as a primary machine, consider display your most important issue,
followed by RAM and hard drive space, get a CD-RW so you can swap files and,
finally, consider the processor. Heat and power consumption will be the
primary issues . . .. Again, a PIII speedstep in the 600-700 mHz range
should do okay . . .. Don't bother waiting for a P4 or equivalent laptop.
Cheers,
Sean<Br>
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D&M Davidovic [SMTP:davidovm -at- pathcom -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 2:28 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Celeron vs Pentium for a TWer's laptop
>
> I'm a Macintosh user considering my first purchase of a Windows machine.
> For my purposes, a laptop is better than a desktop. Windows laptop with
> Intel processors feature either a Celeron or a Pentium chip. According
> to Intel's Celeron site, a Celeron-powered laptop is for "the student on
> the go". But from the standpoint of doing TWing work (novice-level
> stuff, I should perhaps add) on a laptop, what are the important
> differences between these two processors?
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