Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/3/25 Eddie Bernard <edd...@gmail.com>: > >> I'm looking to offer a base unit, 2GHz dual core Celeron (E1400) with >> 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM, and a 150GB SATA hdd. Graphics, sound and >> ethernet are onboard. >> > > My only comment - apart from to agree with those who commend that you > use the LTS version - would be this: I would never buy a Celeron and I > tell everyone, friends and clients, to avoid them. They are nasty, > crippled devices and anything with a "Celery" in it is probably > rubbish, in my not-at-all-humble opinion. > > I'd rather have a cheap low-end but full-spec AMD or Via chip than a > Celeron. Yes, I know it's possible to replace a Celeron with a > full-spec chip, but almost nobody ever does & it's almost never an > economical upgrade. > >
Actually the dual core Celerons are pretty quick. They are based on the Core 2 Duo core with just a smaller cache. To be honest I would presume that a system for about £200 would not be aimed at a power user and with some people finding that a single core Atom at 1.6GHz does the job (heck, a Duron 1400 with 512MB Ram I built the other day is fine for web browsing) then a Celeron Dual Core would probably be fine. Saying that though, I'd rather have a Core 2 based Celeron Dual Core or Pentium Dual Core rather than the older Pentium 4 Prescott based Celeron D (my kids PC has one in and while it's fine for what they want and pretty quick at 3.33GHz it's really power hungry and runs hot). I do agree about the AMD chips though, if you can get one cheap enough and a decent AM2+ board then you could at a later date drop in an AM2 (and I believe AM3) Phenom II onto the board (although for best performance you really need a board which can support the faster HT speeds of the Phenom which some of the cheaper AM2+ boards don't support). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
