difference between celeron & pentium??

elseychelsea

Hello, can anyone tell me the main differences between intel celeron proccessors + pentuim please?

I heard celeron is the cheap version and told to stay away from it just wondering if that was correct?

thanks

nickmack

Very basically, yes Celerons were introduced as low end CPU's.

Generally they have smaller L2 caches than their Pentium conunterparts.

For more detailed technical info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium

GoofyGAT

Roughly speaking, a Celeron is the cheaper 'cut down' version of a Pentium. Whether you should stay from them or not depends on your computing needs. I was using a 600Mhz Celeron PC little over a year ago & was well-pleased.

Some info/articles:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question268.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051813723
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2002/09/03/battling_brothers/index.html

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It depends on the Celeron processor. They are essentailly cut down versions of the Pentium. The desktop versions aren't great (Celeron-D) although they have improved since the previous generation of Celerons. I certainly wouldn't choose one.

The Celeron-M is used in laptops and though cut down the differences are much smaller and I would be happy to use one of these. However Pentium-M laptops have come down so much in price and tend to come with faster processor speeds so in this case I would go for one of these instead. However if the speeds are similar or the same there's little reason for not choosing a Celeron-M especially if it saves a decent amount of money.

elseychelsea

thank you all for your help!