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Originally Posted by BV
no, i bought a nice HP laptop with a Celeron for my GF last Christmas for 400 bucks. It's pretty nice and for what you described it will perform fine.
Celeron's always have gotten a bad rap, at one time the only difference between a Celeron versus a Pentium was the built on cache of the pentium. I had one of these Celerons back in 99, you could overclock the shit out of them!
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You're comparing a laptop that has xp on it last christmas to a laptop one would get today with only Vista available.
Vista requires so much more juice to run that celeron's are giving every laptop maker a bad rep. Word processing is annoying on them.. lagged text readout up to a few sentences long in some case. So imagine how difficult image resizing and other webmaster duties would be.
He would NEED a dual core. Even a single core athlon is not enough. albeit no text input lag but still a slow ass machine.
Futureshop has many cool deals on laptops now. Go Check out the 17 inch acer with dual core athlons. 699. cant complain. Or if you want a little more quality check out the 749 17" HP. Dual core athlon as well. Drop a two year service contract on it and you'll be game to go under $1000
