Celeron adequate?

[deepakvrao]

I know this has been probably beaten to death but I have not found much on search. I have a n AMD Athlon 2400+ laptop and it compares well with my P4 desktop. I need to buy a laptop for my dad, whose only use is e-mail/word/excel and surfing the net. In India AMD laptops have not yet made much of a presence and P4/Centrino are expensive. Would a celeron be adequate and if so what clock speed is required?

 

[Sunner]

A Celery will do just fine for that.
Unless he's running some kind of monster macros in Excel, any speed grade will be fine.

 

[deepakvrao]

Thanks. I thought that in this forum Celeron was rated as junk.

 

[Sunner]

For gaming, it's pretty much junk, though the new Prescott based Celerons are far better than their utterly pathetic Northwood based brothers.
For office apps, it's more than adequate(as is every other CPU sold these days) and not nearly as pitiful compared to Durons/Athlons/P4's.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: deepakvrao
Thanks. I thought that in this forum Celeron was rated as junk.

In most situations you can get an AMD based system for same money which performs better, and that's why they're bashed. But since you can't get an AMD based system and the computer is not a gaming machine the celeron will get the work done.

 

[SimsFreak]

My celeron did some what good in gaming. No high-end gaming but games like CS, Black and White, things like that

 

[chilled]

Originally posted by: SimsFreak
My celeron did some what good in gaming. No high-end gaming but games like CS, Black and White, things like that

Yeh, but it can handle solitaire just fine!


Any recent Celeron is fine for your uses. I expect you can get 2GHz+ at a good price there. You may want to check if its the mobile version first though and not a desktop version if heat and battery life are of importance.

 

[LesPaul]

you can run CS on a 600MHz Celeron. My friend still does :Q

 

[deepakvrao]

Thanks all.

 

[imported_jediknight]

Originally posted by: LesPaul
you can run CS on a 600MHz Celeron. My friend still does :Q

Not very well, I'd imagine.. I couldn't get it to run nicely on a 900MHz Celeron.. hence the reason that machine is now in the junk pile :-> (ie. given to someone else in my family ;p)

 

[imported_jediknight]

Originally posted by: deepakvrao
I know this has been probably beaten to death but I have not found much on search. I have a n AMD Athlon 2400+ laptop and it compares well with my P4 desktop. I need to buy a laptop for my dad, whose only use is e-mail/word/excel and surfing the net. In India AMD laptops have not yet made much of a presence and P4/Centrino are expensive. Would a celeron be adequate and if so what clock speed is required?

I'd stay away from Celerons at all possible.. but if your only choice is between a P4/Centrino (which is too expensive) and a celly, I'd reluctantly recommend the Celeron (oh damn.. I can't believe I just said that).