In what ways are celeron processors inferior?

Question

I need to replace my computer and they are cheaper but presumably not as powerful?

Thing is, in 13 years on the internet, I've only ever owned two computers - I've done this be buying something more powerful and roomy that I need at the time and then running it until it can't keep up. Looks like the celeron is not going to fit this bill.
Thanks for the answers so far - any more comments?

Answer 1

So, what are you doing with your computers? There are only a few things which require the blinding speed these posters seem to need.

1. Professional graphics work.

2. Games, I am talking the real hot games here, not minesweeper.

All other users are being silly when they talk about differences of speed between this and that processor.

Just how much speed do you need to keep up with the Internet anyway?

How much speed does a computer need to take a key and put its character in a word processor window?

How much speed do you need to print your documents?

There are all sorts of people who are spending $2,000 and up for a computer to do exactly what you can do well with a $600 machine. Unless you are really rich, BMW or Porsche rich, don't buy a machine that costs more than you need. The cheaper machines today are plenty fast enough for the vast majority of owners.

But, you have these show-offs who want to impress others by talking about their great computers even if they never use them at their maximum. Most of them are using Daddy's money to brag with.

Answer 2

Celerons are not powerful, but they are extremely good budget items because they are the Value line Intel products.

Cutting edge techs like HT and Dual Core are not going to a Value line factory line. And they have far less second fastest built-in memory (none at the very beginning of the brand line) called L2 cache.

Answer 3

Their biggest drawback in comparison to their Pentium counterparts is less cache memory, which is your system's fastest type of memory. They also don't have some of the fancy new technologies like hyper-threading and dual core processing. So, at the same clock speed, a Pentium will nearly always out-perform a Celeron.

Answer 4

They are usually the cheapest but also the crappiest. I just bought a laptop from dell with celeron and I hate it. I have compaq sempron desktop and that runs great. So I don't know what to tell you.

Answer 5

celeron processors suck because they dont have a cache. because of this, they have to process the same info over again every time it comes through.

Answer 6

They carry a smaller cache than the pentium variety in general which makes it slower.

Answer 7

true- when i was buying my laptop everyone told me not to buy one with a celeron- not good enough- not as fast etc- get centrino- its awesome
good luck

Answer 8

They Can't FRY chicken!