My friend is asking me if she should get a celeron. Its a compaq presario… for about 799 cdn.
but my other friend told me that celeron’s are c.rap. is it true? Cause all she is going to use it for is word processing, and internet. and some internet games (like yahoo, no unreal tournament) - so would you advise her getting the celeron?
thank you. 
dude, unless all she wants to do is type, then yes, if not…
I wouldnt touch it with a 10 foot pole…
so what is wrong with celerons?
they run real slow, if you have more than one program running at the same time the slow down ALOT…
And I had one burn out on me once…
Don’t get something from HP unless you know nothing about computers.
HP computers are very hard to upgrade after they’re bought, and aren’t generally the greatest things in the world.
he said celeron not HP…
I know its a processor, but Don’t HP make computers called celerons too?
Nope, I was stupid enough to buy an HP, but I got a AMD athlon.
I messed around it now its a bit bettter…
but no…
Coppertop, HP makes Pavillion’s, not Celerons 
Oops my bad
Well he said she wants a Presario, and HP makes Presarios (now).
yeah …now…actually they just own the company that does
Stupid compaq…
both my parents work for hewlett packard and it’s stupid… why would they take compaq… compaq should die.
celerons are okay if all she wants to do is word processing/internet…they are pretty much the same as PIII’s, but if I were her, I would wait another month or two, save up a little bit more money and buy a decent P4. although the raw Mhz of P4’s and celerons are comparable, the P4’s have a larger cache and MUCH faster frontside bus, which will translate into greatly increased performance.
if you’re really adventuresome, you could save $100-200 by building your own computer…it’s really easy and i’m sure there are tons of people on here who could help you pick out the parts. just a thought…
(note: I would choose dell over hp, compaq, and gateway…I just like them better)
-teet
i saw on thescreensavers.com about building a computer, but i aint that good, so i dont know if id ruin it.
ok, are AMD’s good? because AMD’s are really cheap…
AMD’s are okay…I think they’re used in a lot of gaming systems. the computer shop I work in uses only intel stuff so i really haven’t had much experience with it
building computers isn’t hard at all…i was building them on my own after a couple hours (I had only seen the inside of a computer a few times before this). basically, you just buy all the parts (motherboard, processor, ram, harddrive, cdrom, floppy, and a case w/a powersupply), mount them to the case, and hook in all the connections. it shouldn’t take you anymore than an hour or two to put it together (i can build and image one in about 30 minutes now). after that, slap on an OS, install the drivers and you’re good to go.
-teet
Ya, I’m trying to build a 486 out of parts that I find for FREE. I’m currently missing ram, a case, a monitor & keybord/mouse. And… thats it I think. No wait, I am missing the floppy drive and CD drive.
As for AMDs, I use a AMD Athalon 1.3, and it is great. to get a P4 that did the same, it was about $100 more. I definately prefer AMDs over Intel. When upgrading an intel, each processor use up a different socket, meaning you need to buy a new mother board. With AMDs, they all fit in the same socket. AMD’s new processors, project “Jackhammer” will be capable of 64bit processing and 32bit. (Intel tried something similar which completely failed due to lack of programs capable of 64bit, their processors were unable to run 32bit as well).
I know more, but don’t feel like typing.
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