Re: Which cpu to go for?

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:04:38 GMT, "Dennis Pogson"
<dennis_nospampogson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>tarquinlinbin wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:35:03 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> __/ [Dennis Pogson] on Monday 19 December 2005 09:07 \__
>>>
>>>> tarquinlinbin wrote:
>>>>> Centrino pemtium M
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> Celeron M
>>>>>
>>>>> is there a great deal of difference performance wise?
>>>>>
>>>>> ta
>>>>>
>>>>> jo
>>>>>
>>>> >
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>>>> For what it's worth, I own 2 almost identical laptops, one with a
>>>> Pentium M and the other with a Celeron M. The Pentium is much
>>>> faster and the battery lasts about 3 times as long per charge.
>>>>
>>>> Dennis.
>>>
>>> These are some recent benchmarks:
>>>
>>>
>http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/ind
>ex.html
>>>
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2221&tag=nl.e539
>>>
>>> Are you looking for performance? Low cost? What will you run? What
>>> will the demand be? What is the nature of the programs you will run?
>>> There is no single answer unless you give more details.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps and best wishes,
>>>
>>> Roy
>> Well the most demanding task i think i might ever do is some low level
>> video editing using adobe premiere 6 or similar and then burning the
>> output to a DVD. I suspect that the Centrino tag is all just mainly
>> marketing and that although the pentium M cpu may have a slight
>> edge,maybe its not that much more powerful than the celeron non
>> centrino M processor?. Trouble is,i just need some further info to
>> confirm my suspicions before i spend on a celeron M laptop!.
>>
>>
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>The Celeron processor in my Toshiba A60 laptop is painfully slow, even
>compared to a Pentium 3/500mhz processor. You have been warned!
>
ok thanks,well my current desktop system is a pentium 3 500mhz with
half a gig of ram and although its great for everyday stuff,its no
good for any video editing.



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