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Pentium M vs Celeron M

tadhgrrr · 2005-09-16 14:07:58

im looking into buying a new laptop and need a little advice about processor choice. which is better 1)Intel® Pentium® M 725A Processor (1.6GHz 2MB L2 cache 400MHz FSB) 2)Intel® Celeron® M 360(1.40GHz 1MB L2 cache 400MHz FSB) the price difference is only €26 between these two options with the Pentium M being the more…

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tadhgrrr

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im looking into buying a new laptop and need a little advice about processor choice. which is better

1)Intel® Pentium® M 725A Processor (1.6GHz 2MB L2 cache 400MHz FSB)
2)Intel® Celeron® M 360(1.40GHz 1MB L2 cache 400MHz FSB)

the price difference is only €26 between these two options with the Pentium M being the more expensive. I wont really be using the laptop for any very intensive applications..it will mainly be used for writing up a thesis and using fairly standard software packages

thanks...

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#2 16-09-2005 2:14pm

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That's a very small difference - go for the pentium at that rate

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#3 16-09-2005 2:47pm

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At €26 definately the Pentium-M. The Celeron-M is a good processor, and if the difference was €126 or more it would be well worth considering. But at €26 there is no competition.

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#4 16-09-2005 3:10pm

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thats what i thought aswell.thnks..its got a slightly higher clock speed too

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#5 17-09-2005 12:54am

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Oh, especially with the higher clock speed. You're getting a bargain with the higher processor with only a 26 euro price difference between those two.

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#6 20-09-2005 9:27am

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This really should be made a sticky, it comes up again & again. The main differance is the Pentium-m will give you on average an extra hours battery thanks to speedstep technology.

Heres a good benchmark to illustrate how close the cpu's really are (keep in mind the p4 in the test is a slightly faster chip)
http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040309/centrino-07.html

But for €25 you really do have to go for the pentium

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#7 20-09-2005 10:26pm

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No sooner said than done ..Thanks

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#8 21-09-2005 1:28pm

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Excellent stuff. The only other suggestion Id make is maybe it needs to be a little more prominent, I doubt many people will actually take the trouble to find that before start a thread. At least now the link is handy for people in future though.

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