How bad are celerons these days?
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I am looking at upcoming lightning deals and I see this HP PC. Right now its at $220, but I am wondering if it will drop below $180 when it becomes a lightning deal in 13 hours.
Do you think this desktop is a good deal for under $200? I know its not going to be super fast or anything, but the price seems good for a lower end system.
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It's probably fine. Celerons are always the low end of whatever Intel is making. They are pretty much always the same thing.
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A lot of things in the Chromebook range come with Celerons these days.
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It will surf the web and watch youtube / netflix no problem.
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I could also add a HD to this, install an OS and be good to go.
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I'd put in a cheap SSD before I went to an i3 but just my $0.02
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@MattSpeller said:
I'd put in a cheap SSD before I went to an i3 but just my $0.02
Agreed, the processor is the least important component these days.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
I'd put in a cheap SSD before I went to an i3 but just my $0.02
Agreed, the processor is the least important component these days.
That seems like a fairly extreme statement.
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@thanksaj said:
That seems like a fairly extreme statement.
Why? What component do you feel is more important? Memory and storage drastically impact performance more than CPU does. Almost nothing that normal users do is CPU bound.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Almost nothing that normal users do is CPU bound.
Moore's law is responsible.
Spinning rust has not been able to keep up with CPU's for years now, it's just in the last 12mths that SSD are now consumer commodity cheap and very easy to recommend.
$0.50/gb and dropping in CDN -
And the things that end users do are rarely computationally complex. They tend to do things that are graphically complex or that wait on some combination of disk and network IO. Memory comes into play because people like to have lots of stuff running at once. But none of that makes the CPU the bottleneck. There is a reason that I am able to run decently well on a seven year old AMD Phenom II processor with only three cores!
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This PC is for me. Its sort of going to be a living room type computer that will only get internet use. It will also be used as a media sharing center.
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@IRJ said:
This PC is for me. Its sort of going to be a living room type computer that will only get internet use. It will also be used as a media sharing center.
Yeah it's 100% up to that. $200 is a good deal for it, I don't mean to detract from that.
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At that price, pretty hard to go wrong.
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I personally avoid Celerons like the plague. Mainly due to the fact that historically, they have been a cheap pile of crap that bottlenecked the system. Kind of like a cork in a bottle.
Yes, as @scottalanmiller stated, that's not so much of an issue today but I still can't bring myself to consider them because of how bad they used to be.To me, they still seem like 3-4 year old tech picked up at a $2 shop, repackaged & sold as new.
