Re: Best bang for my laptop buck ?

Yes, there are people to whom speed doesn't matter. But to anyone to whom it does matter .... and at some level that is most people .... the difference between a Celeron and the corresponding "full function" processor is significant.

But my point is this: The Celeron may have made sense when there was an approximately $300 price difference. But when the price difference drops to under $100 (and in some cases to $0), then it becomes hard to justify buying a machine whose overall operation will be an average of about 30% slower. Even if you don't truly need the 30%. Plus, because of Speedstep and other energy management features, the full functio processors usually get better battery life.


BillW50 wrote:

Barry Watzman wrote:

It means a processor which has not been intentionally crippled to be
sold at a lower price while not harming the market for the higher end
chips.


What's wrong with that Barry? Most people can't tell or would know the difference anyway. And I love buying the less than greatest technology stuff that they are trying to unload as nobody would buy it for more. As it is much better and faster than what I bought just a few years ago.

And the best part of all of this is that most people believe they have to have the biggest and most powerful system just too compute. And while this is true for many gamers which there isn't a machine made which is fast enough yet. But the marketing also has most of the rest of you convinced of the same thing. Why? Is it really worth 3 times more money for that little extra?


A Celeron M and a Pentium M from the same processor family are
substantially identical with the following exceptions:

-The Celeron has much less cache memory (one-half or one quarter)


Well I think cache memory are huge nowadays. And why would you need all of that memory for anyway? I know many diesel engines are sold at different horse power ratings and you pay different prices for them. But the engines are the same and the programming in the chip is the only thing that is different. I know when I worked with electron microscopes the extra features that costs thousands of dollars were either enabled or disabled in a single chip (while nothing else was different). I'm sure lots of things in chips are done this way.


-Certain functions and instructions of the Pentium M are not present
(removed/disabled) in the Celeron versions of the same chip. In
particular, power and energy management functions (SpeedStep, etc.)
are missing, and some advanced CPU instructions may be missing.


Be honest Barry, most people don't even take advantage of all of the nifty features that comes with electronic devices. Many still haven't set their own VCR clocks yet. Thus would it really be terrible if some of the geeky geewiz stuff were missing? I think not. ;)


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