Intel Says That Celeron Will Continue to Live On

[Marcus Yam]

Long live the Celeron!

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[pcworm]

typing on a T1500 right now
I hope celeron phases out
real pice of... well u know
I curse myself every day for buying this laptop

 

[aaruni123]

Never liked Celeron. Makes a lot more sense to buy a cheap AMD instead.

 

[Guest]

I think the 2 core Celeron is a good value especially for Enterprise computers. I think its better then a low powered Atom 2 core. Unfortunately the Celeron name got a bad rap when it first came out as being under featured for what Intel was charging for it. Now though I think its a viable solution.

 

[aaruni123]

[citation][nom]jescott418[/nom]I think the 2 core Celeron is a good value especially for Enterprise computers. I think its better then a low powered Atom 2 core. Unfortunately the Celeron name got a bad rap when it first came out as being under featured for what Intel was charging for it. Now though I think its a viable solution.[/citation]
The whole point of Atom CPU is low power consumption and I don't see a Celeron winning over an Atom in this area.

 

[theshonen8899]

I like the new Wolfdale Celerons but I'm hoping they phase out simply for consistency haha (i3, i5, i7).

 

[theshonen8899]

[citation][nom]aaruni123[/nom]The whole point of Atom CPU is low power consumption and I don't see a Celeron winning over an Atom in this area.[/citation]

I don't think he was implying that the Celeron had lower power consumption.

 

[triplebug]

toms like rumor ;/

 

[cpukill]

Some of you are very wrong. In fact, Celeron is very good from price/ performance ratio so Intel choose Celeron for servers! Why not have a review for Celeron G1101? Celeron is much better than ATOM.
Intel should kill "Pentium" branding because is very very old.

 

[kd0frg]

u forgot xeon

 

[huron]

Honestly, I don't care whether it goes or stays, but the most recent E3200 and E3300 celerons have been fine. I guess the bad reputation has hurt it through the years, but I've never had a problem with the most recent dual-core generation.

 

[Lutfij]

i have no idea how they became popular? really gave me a hard time with any programme's :S

 

[yzfr1guy]

Yeah for weak Celery processors..

 

[C00lIT]

Last I checked the Pentium were the new Celerons...

So what's the point of having 2 low end cpu's.

Celerons have had their good days and bad days... If I were intel I would think it's time to let them rest and have the Popular Pentium Name run for the Masses of Excel, business and retirement home computers... EDIT: I USED BAD LANGUAGE, AND AM WASHING MY MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP RIGHT NOW... that's fine by me.

 

[hixbot]

No so, says Intel; the Celeron the will live on.

Intel is so articulate.

 

[halls]

Why would they phase out C2D and keep Celeron?!

 

[MU_Engineer]

[citation][nom]aaruni123[/nom]Never liked Celeron.[/citation]

I suppose you never had a Mendocino Celeron then. The Mendocinos were the first Intel desktop chip with a full-speed, on-die L2 cache and overclocked like mad. The 300A was a very famous chip with enthusiasts as it was inexpensive and regularly reached 450 MHz. That's pretty impressive considering "inexpensive" still meant about $150 and the Pentium IIs of the day cost a lot more and could maybe overclock 10-20%.

But yeah, most of the rest of the Celerons stink. The only other decent Celerons are the PIII Coppermine-based units, the Celeron 4xx Core 2-based single-cores, and a few of the current 45 nm dual-cores. The rest stink, particularly the L2-less original Covington model, the 128K L2 NetBurst units, and the SpeedStep-less notebook Celerons.

Makes a lot more sense to buy a cheap AMD instead.

Agreed 100%.

 

[atomyc]

[citation][nom]aaruni123[/nom]Never liked Celeron. Makes a lot more sense to buy a cheap AMD instead.[/citation]

totally agree.

 

[victomofreality]

I really think they need to just scrap the atom-core2duo and focus on just the core I series. It's already a 3 tiered product line with 3 different mb socket configurations. Maybe come out with a core i1 or something for the atom celeron block.

 

[megamanx00]

Boo

 

[kdashjl]

Long live the Celeron!

 

[hellwig]

You can tell what market segment the Celeron is aimed at, because they never included generation information in the name. I guess knowing what generation that processor is from is too much info for anyone in the Celeron market. I just never understood why they always branded their low-end chips as plain Celeron (not Celeron 2, Celeron 4, Celeron c2, etc..). It makes it hard to determine the value of the processor if you know just little enough to know that a Core 2 is better than a Pentium 4, but what is this Celeron (is it P4 or C2 based)? Is this computer really a good deal?

Personally, I've only ever bought one Celeron-based computer (because another K6-2 laptop just wasn't gonna cut it at the time). Now, I avoid them just because I don't know of any instance where it would be better to go Celeron over Pentium, and certainly never over a cheaper AMD chip.

 

[captaincharisma]

of coarse intel won't kill it. they wouldn't discontinue there brand that makes them money off of selling off there defective chips

 

[MxM]

STILL ALIVE!

 

[Zagen30]

[citation][nom]halls[/nom]Why would they phase out C2D and keep Celeron?![/citation]

The Core 2 line is now old(ish) technology, and the name applies to chips based on the Conroe/Kentsfield/Yorkfield/Allendale/Wolfdale versions of the Core architecture. Celeron is a name that Intel has used across several generations of chips to label their budget chips.