processors
By bigdogsmom
@bigdogsmom (34)
United States
August 31, 2008 3:47pm CST
Hi, I am looking to buy a new laptop. I have had great experiences with my Toshiba and looking for another one. What is the difference between a AMD Athlon processor and an Intel Celeron? The computer I'm on has Intel and the one I'm looking at has a AMD. Toshiba uses both but I don't know the difference and if one is better than the other. Can you please help me?
2 responses
@navydragon (80)
• Philippines
7 Sep 08
you could go for one with AMD turion 64 X2 processor, they are better than intel core duo, but are little less powerful than core 2 duo's, but is definitely cheaper and has very good performance.
@bigdogsmom (34)
• United States
7 Sep 08
Thank you! What's the difference between the AMD Atholon and AMD turion? I see Toshiba has both but the turion is in the more expensive models.
@navydragon (80)
• Philippines
7 Sep 08
Well, Turion 64 X2 are already dual core and 64 bit ready, so you can install 64 bit O.S., they also have 1mb L2 Cache and 1600MHZ hyper transport, so they really are pretty much more powerful than the athlon.
@bigdogsmom (34)
• United States
10 Sep 08
Thank you Navydragon! I'm not too sure of the things you said ( meaning I have no clue) but I will definitly take your advice you sound like a great expert. Do you work with computers that you know so much? I will definitly contact you for advice, does the message after yours make any sense to you? I have to respond to that one. Thanks again
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
1 Sep 08
I can not speak for AMD but an Intel Celeron is a processor with less cash memory on the processor. thus it is a little slower but can do everything a normal processor can do
