Re: XP Professional: Not as bad as I expected, but still VERY primitive

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:26:04 -0400, ZnU wrote:

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"John Slade" <hitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"NRen2k5" <nomore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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George Graves wrote:
Things like screen capture (needed to write product mamuals) are low
resolution and look terrible compared to those from the Mac.

Screen capture just dumps what's onscreen, at whatever resolution it's at.

The Dell Latitude D510 seems to have a 1.5 Gig Celeron M in it (if I am
to believe Dell's website - and I have no reason not to) yet it seems
sluggish compared to my 1 Gig G4 PowerBook and definitly slow nest to me
G5 tower. It boots slower also, taking close to two minutes to reach
desktop, vs less than a minute for my PowerBook and only about 30 seconds
for my G5.

Yeah. Celerons, even Celeron M's, are just plain handicapped. There's
really no sugarcoating it. They do make for decent and *very cheap*
computers. I mean, I could probably find a laptop for $650 brand new, and
it would be built on a Celeron, of course.

I swear I don't know why they want to keep the Celeron line since
Processors are getting dirt cheap. I mean a full fledged Pentium D 2.66GHz
is around $120 retail. Celerons are about half that with 1/4th the cache.
It's just not worth it. It's a processor made for people who don't know
better. It's been used as a ripp-off for many a fly-by-night PC builder.

I'd guess that, with increased competition between Intel and AMD, the
days when processor makers can cripple their low-end offerings as a form
of market segmentation are quickly drawing to a close, and the Celeron
won't last too much longer.

Both AMD and Intel engage in the practice. AMD has their Sempron line, and
Intel has the Celeron and Core Solo. In the coming years, we'll probably
see a shift to processor cores as a method of market segmentation.


Notably, Intel's planned Core Duo 2 lineup has chips targeted at the
Pentium's market (Conroe), the Pentium-M's market (Merom) and the Xeon's
market (Woodcrest)... but there's nothing being positioned as a next
generation Celeron-equivalent, as far as I'm aware.

The single-core variants of these processors (save the Xeon), I think.
.

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