Celeron Processors

[landbeforetimelover]

I've been thinking a lot about celeron processors and I've really wondered why celeron was invented and why it's still being created to this day.  It has to be the WORST type of processor in the world!  According to PC manufacturers, AMD Sempron processors are the equivalent of Celerons, however I really don't think that's true.  Almost every single computer I've worked with that had a celeron processor SUCKED!  I installed windows vista home premium on a laptop with these specs:

2.2ghz celeron processor
2gb ram
120gb hard disk

Yeah, I know vista sucks really bad and its performance is the worst of any OS ever created, but this was ridiculous!  The laptop couldn't even play a little 200mb avi file without chopping up and startup time was like 6 full minutes. I installed vista home premium on this computer and it handled much better:

1.8ghz Pentium M processor
1gb ram
40gb hard disk

As you can see, everything in the computer was lower including the ram, hard disk space, and processor speed, but yet it out preformed the celeron.  Celeron has to be the worst hardware computer invention ever.  It can't handle crap!  That 2.2ghz celeron acted like a 900mhz PIII.  Has anyone else here had the misfortune of dealing with celeron garbage?  I'm pretty sure you'd notice how slow and crappy your machine was even just doing daily tasks such as surfing the web and reading emails.

[DarkHououmon]

Kylie has a laptop computer with Windows Vista Basic with the Celeron Processor. Celeron M to be exact. She complains that, at times, her computer will run so slow and she has said, a few times, that she hates having Vista on it. I had told her that she could downgrade to XP, which might help her computer run faster, but she refuses, afraid that she might ruin it or something.

[landbeforetimelover]

Well, even XP has a hard time running on Celerons. : It was worth the extra $50 or $75 to get the Intel or AMD chip.

[Petrie.]

Celerons are the low-end of chips by Intel.  They've always been second rate to the Pentium or M chips.  Outside of being much much slower, I'd say they're as reliable.  Those $400 Dells that are advertised so much have the Celerons in them.

[landbeforetimelover]

I know.  It's pretty stupid since you can go to HP and get a $360 computer with a DUAL CORE AMD processor that's clocked higher than the piece of junk Celeron that Dell sells.

I'm pretty sure that Celeron processors are dying.  Hopefully in a year or two we'll never see another one again.

[Petrie.]

As long as people will buy $400 machines, then the Celeron will be around.

[action9000]

I'm pretty sure that Celeron processors are dying. Hopefully in a year or two we'll never see another one again.

Maybe so but we'll just see an equivalent of the Celeron/Sempron with a new name and new "budget" architecture.