Intel celeron M?

studentdave

quick question..

Why does every1 hate intel celeron processors

whats so bad about them

rchddap1

A celeron is essentially a cut down version of a Pentium processor, and therefore not as good as the real thing. I'm sure other's will come to give you the specific technical differences though.

studentdave

Why did Intel decide to cut down the version from the pentium processor?

So whats difference between centrino and celeron then?

Fifer

Why did Intel decide to cut down the version from the pentium processor?

So whats difference between centrino and celeron then?

They did it to achieve two price points; an entry level product and a premium product. The main difference (AFAIAA) is the size of the internal cache memory. There are two Celeron products; the original desktop Celeron (as described above) which is the budget, desktop product (sometimes used in laptops, but really too power hungry for that application) and the Celeron-M which is a (slightly) reduced spec version of the Centrino low power-consumption laptop processor. It's a good low-price option and isn't that far behind it's (Pentium based?) Centrino big brother.

Chuffy

so what's a Pentium M then?
Is it somewhere between the Celeron M and the Centrino?

newfoundglory

Centrino is just a marketing name for a number of components that a machine must contain in order to be labelled "centrino". A pentium-m processor is one of these componets... other include specific intel chipsets and built in wireless.

You could, for example, have a system which has a pentium-m processor with a different chipset and no wireless... in this case you can't call it centrino.

The M's are dynamically underclocked processors, that is they save battery by "switching" to a lower clock speed and thus require less voltage. If you do a processor intensive task, the processor dynamically "steps up" in clock speed by applying more voltage.

I have a 1.8 pentium m as part of a centrino system. The processor sits at 600MHz most of the time. It steps up through 800Mhz, 1.0Ghz, 1.2Ghz and 1.8Ghz to save battery.

gizmoleeds

Chuffy wrote:

so what's a Pentium M then?
Is it somewhere between the Celeron M and the Centrino?

Centrino isn't a processor (although you would think so from the marketing) - it is an umbrella description for a computer with:

- a Pentium M processor
- an Intel wireless networking card, and
- an Intel 855 or 915 chipset (don't ask)

If you were cynical, you would think Intel only invented the name to increase sales of these other products :rolleyes:


Edit: sorry newfoundglory - I got the database error so many times you beat me to it

tomstickland

Celeron is a negative energy processor.

gizmoleeds

tomstickland wrote:

Celeron is a negative energy processor.

Que? :rudolf:

tomstickland

I got it confused with celery, sorry.

intel

gizmoleeds wrote:

Que? :rudolf:

That means you can jumpstart it off a car....