What is better, when buying a new laptop, intel Celeron or Intel Pentium; and why? What is the difference?
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As a rule, never go for a Celeron.\nThe diference is in the arhitecture of the PC itself.\nFor example the Pentium has a 1mb level 2 cache. The Celeron has half of that. This translates in slower speeds at processing flow. \nIf you want the best for your laptop go for the full featured mid-range processor either from AMD or Pentium.\n\nSempron from AMD comes in the same way, with less multimedia instructions and much less cache memory.\n\nI still won't recomend Pentium 4 based laptops because of heat generated by these processor. In laptops this translates in increased speeds from the cooler and faster battery outage. Hold out until the Core 2 Duo laptops jump on the wagon, if they haven't already or move to the AMD based laptops which will give you better performance than Pentium 4.\nWith longer battery life too!
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"Celeron" chips were made with the intention to be "Pentium chips" but they are the ones that fall short of the specifications required to meet the standards of Pentium chips (operating speed, etc.)  In most industries when a manufactured product isn't up to par or "defective" it is discarded.  The Intel company decided that instead of throwing them away, they would make money on them by slapping a cool name on them and put them into computers anyway.\n\nCelerons are substandard and you should never sell yourself and your computer short by letting one into your house.
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Both are made by Intel - I don't personally see any real difference in performance from the type of chip (either Celeron or Pentium).\n\nWhat you really need to know is the clockspeed, not the chip name.\n\nThe PC you buy should reflect what purpose it will be used for. If it's just word documents etc, you only need an entry level PC, but for high powered graphics editing, serious gaming etc, you'll want a higher spec one.\n\nPCs on the market today are getting to the 4GHz mark (that's 4 GigaHertz) for the really high spec models.\n\nDepending on what you want to buy, you need to understand that the higher the clockspeed, the faster the PC will be.\n\nAdditionally, you should check out how much RAM it has. For docs, you can go for 128/256 MB RAM, but higher spec PCs are getting produced with upwards of 1024 MB\n\nHard disk size is merely to do with the amount of data you will store on it. Standard is 80GB last time I checked, but there are PCs out there with 250GB etc. As with the above, it's all to do with requirement and bigger is better. Remember with this though that text takes up less space than graphics.\n\nHope this helps.
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I would say the Pentium 3 would be better. But for games I wouldn't really try to play much at all with either of those CPU's.
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It depends on wat kind of applications u work on. Dual core is good if u want 2 use multiple applications at da same time. It wont giv u any more advantages,it takes more power & more money from ur pocket.I say u go with Pentium 4 3.2GHz, coz its more faster & less power using dan dual core.If u want u can also buy AMD FX 57. Its very good & IC Chip(The best comp magazine) rated it da best proccessor. U can buy dat if u want. But if u still want intel, u buy P4 3.2 GHz
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Highly doubtful that you will see any improvement.  You can do just as much by defragging (already on your computer) and be periodically clearing out your internet cache.  You can, however, do a web search for intel accelerator.  It is no longer supported by Intel and only works on certain chipsets but it does make your system a little more efficient and run a little faster.  You can also replace your celeron with a PIII "flip chip" which is a direct replacement for the celeron and will boost your speed (has a larger cache).  In addition you should up your ram to 128 and drop in a 7800 rpm larger hard drive.
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Pentium is generally better than Celeron benchmark wise, but Celeron has a price edge.  The advantages of 64 bit processors are nicely explained here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/64bit/benefits.mspx
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if you want to use it for doing fast programming or heavy proccesing INTEL® is the best, but if you want to do graphical jobs or heavy games or normal use AMD® is the best.AMD uses crystal® technology which i love it!! but if you give it hard work for long time the crystals start to burn and you will burn your CPU!!!\nINTEL® uses cabon™ technology which is not bad but if you work on TOO fast and HEAVY proccesing the carbon starts to warm and reduces the CPU REAL time\none more wrong thing the others said is that ANY CPU's clock is standard and there is no diffrence between them(in same clock) the total job is sensible after a full proccesing!!
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Assuming you could find a P4 running at that speed (the fastest P4 Intel released was 3.8 Ghz based on a Prescott core, with the next fastest being a 3.73 Ghz P4 Extreme Edition), the processor would be, in absolute terms, faster than that Pentium M, but it would be consuming radically more power to provide that computing capability.   Pentium M is much more power efficient than Pentium 4, as measured on a "performance per watt" basis, the new standard Intel is using for designing microprocessors.  Because of this new focus on performance based on power consumption, Intel is dropping the Pentium 4 core from future processor development, and all new Intel CPUs will be based on Pentium M technology.
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r u kidding, a Pentium D is a dual core processor, that means that u have two and i mean two 2.8Ghz processors which equal 5.6Ghz and u can burn ur DVDs and watch ur movies and surf the Internet in the same time because the load is divided between the two processors,go for the Pentium D off course, that if u can Handel it's price\nNote: u will need a different Motherboard if u want to go for dual core
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Just about everything.  But mainly games and high-end software like video editing, photo editing... anything that requires lots of horsepower.  The more cache a CPU has the more instruction it can store close (on) the CPU and it will excute everything faster.  L1 cache is the fastest and the AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego) has 64KB+64KB (128KB) of L1 cache and 1MB of L2 cache.  This varies among processors, Semprons have less and Athlons have more.  The same applies to Intel with the Pentium 4 and Pentium Ds, they have more and the Celerons have less.\n\nIt does matter.  See how slow a Sempron 3100+ is compared to a Athlon 3000+, despite the Sempron having a faster core, you will find that the Athlon 3000+ is actually and performs tasks faster than the Sempron.\n\nThis link might help you, http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/lanwan/story/0,10801,44333,00.html
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Lol! This question can lead to a never ending discussion. \n\nIt depends on what you are going for. Intel's Pentium 4 is a good all around processor. AMD's Athlon is more of a performance processor. The Athlon is the processor you would want to get if you are a gamer or a graphics artist, for they are known for producing clear graphics. Also remember that there are different versions of both companies processors.\n\nI personally would recommend the Athlon, for it not only makes excellent graphics, it is also an excellent all around processor.
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I always tell people to stay away from celeron processors.  Sure they're cheaper, but you get what you pay for.  A laptop with a pentium M processor is probably going to be smaller than one with an AMD.  AMD processors run a little hotter, so they require more space, but they are also slightly faster.  What I would go for though is the new Intel Core Duo processor.  It has two processing cores on one chip so it's a lot faster.  I think Dell just released an inspiron with one in it.  Apple's got them in a laptop as well.  I'm sure there are also many other companies that are going to have them in their machines as well.  But if you have to chose between the three you listed above, go with pentium or amd.  You really wont notice much of a difference between the two.  Just stay away from celeron.
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Celeron's are a family of lower-cost Pentium chips from Intel.\n\nI think the Celeron M is supposed to be a low power chip used in notebooks.\n\nThe Celeron D is a 64-bit processor (I dont know if it's a dual core, dont think so)
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Pentium D is a Pentium 4 with two processor cores (instead of one) in a single CPU (chip).  If you run applications that take advantage of multiple processors, like high-end photo editing, video editing, and 3D rendering applications (like Maya and 3D Studio, not games), then the Pentium D will outperform the P4 as these applications will take advantage of the extra processor.\n\nHowever, for basic home and office applications or games, the D doesn't buy you much.  The only exception is if you run multiple applications at once with each one running demanding active tasks (like running a huge spreadsheet calculation while searching a massive database and running a web spider to automatically hunt and categorize web pages).
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dual cores are best for multitasking and p4s are best for gaming. \n\nif you dont already have a pentium motherboard though, please consider getting an AMD brand instead. they are cheaper and less resource intensive.
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Basically Intel and AMD are rival processors. They both are same in capability. AMD is new in market, so no one is aware about its capacity. But Intel is quite old one which has gained much publicity and trust in people. I heard AMD is more  powerful than Intel processors. \n\nIf you want to use computers for high end job like graphics design, 3d, animations then i recommend Intel Pentium. If it is for normal use like Office, emails n nets then Celeron would do for you.