Celeron Processors

whatawaster

Unfortunately, their reputation precedes them. Are they really that bad?

Would they run football manager ok on a laptop, for instance? While listening to some tunes through winamp, and browsing web pages?

TerrorFirmer

Unfortunately yes, they have a bad name but only solely due to ignorance, which is equally unfortunate - Many people buy cheaper Celerons and then give out when they don't perform heavy tasks or similar to an equvilent Pentium based system.

The newer Celerons are much better then the older lines, in any case. But even at that, the older celerons are fine for dvds, web browsing, office work, and even playing older games etc. I'd say a modern Celeron should easily run any Football manager game out there, as long as it's not too old, but that logic would apply to any processor, not just a Celeron.

Trust me, if all you're doing is browsing the web and playing music, there will be essentially 0% noticable difference between a Celeron and a Pentium. It only becomes apparent when people start trying to run new games on them, heavy applications and similar, and then start whining "Celerons are so useless...".

If you threw in a good graphics card and ram into a decent Celeron based desktop, you would actually be able to play new games. Just usually, a Celeron system always equates to low end parts in all the hardware aspects, like amount of ram and gfx, which is why Celeron based laptops especially are usually a total no-go for anything gaming wise. But again, football manager will be fine.

Anyway. Basically: No, it's perfectly fine for what you want it for.

TempestSabre

The main disadvantage of a celeron on a laptop is the very poor battery life.

Tom Dunne

Of course there is the Celeron M processor for laptops, but I don't know how good the power saving features of it are.

TempestSabre

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2004/03/09/does_everything_have_to_be_a_centrino/page11.html#battery_test_mobilemark_2002

redmosquito

I have a celeron M processor in my current laptop. Its a fujitsu siemens and the battery life is brutal, around or usually less than an hour

However, it runs anything fine for me (including Football Manager) and stuff like MS Visual Basic 2005 Express. Plus, I would very rarely be using it anywhere that there is no power supply so if thats all your going to need it for i'd say save money and use it!