pentium or celeron

I do have a celeron and believe me....it is the worst i had till now.....i say you go for the Pentium....it will really be fast and efficient. You wont have any speed problem with the Pentium.

To be honest I really do not know, but when I was buying my computer I was told by quite a few people to get a pentium its much faster than the celeron...Even the people at the shop told me that..

I would go for a Mac, but if I was on a strict budget and had no money, I would go for the Pentium 4.30 ghz. I would not like it. Celeron is not that good, it is more like a cheap emachine, okay if you have a kid who wants to learn the computer, but if you really want to do some work,the Pentium. But a caveat now. They are doing away with the Pentiums, and are going for the Duo Core Duo computers. So no matter, you had better start saving.

A Celeron is a piece of garbage. Don't ever get one if you can avoid it. Alot of people don't realize it, but clock speed (GHz), is not that important. The most important thing to do is get a good processor with a powerful core. If you want I can give you more information as to why the Pentium is better, just comment on my reply. The processors from best to worst: Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Athlon64 X2 (Turion64 X2 in laptops) Intel Pentium D AMD Athlon64 (Turion64 in laptops) AMD AthlonXP Intel Pentium 4 (Pentium M in laptops) AMD Sempron Intel Celeron

PC experts say that the main differences between Celerons and Pentiums are in the areas of bus speed and L2 cache features. Pentiums ship with 512kB of secondary (L2) CPU instruction cache. This allows the CPU to store recently used instructions close by and is responsible for much of their high performance. The Celerons that Intel first introduced as a low-cost CPU alternative (266 & 300MHz versions) were basically just Pentium-II's without any L2 cache at all. This deficiency really punished Celeron performance when compared to competitive AMD and Cyrix chips. In response, subsequent Celeron versions (300A and up) were provided with 128kB of L2 cache. Honestly, I would prefer Pentiums for speedier and reliable peformance.