Yonah Celeron performance?

[dpopiz]

I'm going to get the $250 toshiba laptop at BB tomorrow morning. It has a 1.6GHz/1MB Celeron M 420.

Notice this celeron is the new kind which is simply a Core Solo chip with 1MB of cache instead of 2 and NO speedstep.


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I'm curious how its performance will compare to my 2.4GHz HT P4 desktop
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[Snakexor]

should be quite a bit faster if im not mistaken

 

[Furen]

I'd say it'll be the equivalent of a 2.8GHz non-HT Pentium 4. The lack of HT will hurt your multitasking quite a bit, though.

 

[dpopiz]

good answers

 

[unclebud]

so what's the review on it? i wish the hd bay had holes to let heat out, but at least its accessible (may put a dremel to work on it). so is the wireless and the memory bay. this thang is off the hook!

 

[Arkaign]

Check ebay, tons of lower speed (1.5ghz, 1.6ghz) Pentium M cpus available cheap, w/2mb l2 + speedstep! Should be $60 or less ... watch out for shipping though