A Dual Core Celeron

i was just wondering since we are moving to a multicore era of cpu's will there be a dual core celeron of some form? the reason im asking this is my uncle has a laptop with a celeron M and it does take quite a while to load from start up and i will probably buy a new budget laptop for school. thanks for your replies.

 

As far as I know, the lower-spec Allendale processors from Intel will be branded as Pentiums and Celerons, but, this doesn't mean that we will be seeing a dual core Celeron. Could end up being single cored, just based off of Core.



If you're looking for a budget dual core notebook, the Pentium T2060 is a pretty cheap chip, which is simply a Core Duo T2050 with half of the cache disabled.

 

Maybe when Core 4 quad / AMD FX-90 era where speeds of both processor reaches 6Ghz. In essential, maybe a long time down the road then we might get to see a dual core Celeron.

 

i think they're discontinuing the "Celeron name" as well as the netburst architectures (they have done that already). what's really going to happen is there'll be the normal T7xxx series and the T7x50 series for santa rosa, followed by a few more T5xxx series, and they'll use the name "Pentium Dual Core" for a Core Duo w/ half the l2 cache cut down (so only 1 MB).

They'll use the "pentium" name to replace "celeron," but the pentium dual core are still the same thing as the Core except w/ 1/2 the cache disabled.

when it boils down to single core, the core solo will be there, but sold in SPARING quantities, as you can easily pick up a "pentium dual core" for nearly the same price.

 

There will be.As far as I know,Core 2 processors depend heavily on the L2 cache to prevent unnecessary travels to the RAM (cache is way faster that RAM).If they lower the L2 to 1MB or lower, there will be some some Celerons noth in the name and the performance.

 

The low end Core Duo processors are speedy and very affordable, and you can find them in $600-$800 laptops. Some of these have reduced clocks/cache and are branded "Pentium" Dual Core, so these can be seen as the successor to the Celeron line.

 

i see so basically in the future there wont be any celeron processors since the pentium dual cores are the essentially a dual core celeron but with a different name?

 

Perhaps it is significant that the Intel processor info table lists the T2060 on the page with the Mobile Celerons rather than with the other Core Duo CPUs. However, the T2060 has working SpeedStep, unlike the other Mobile Celerons.

John

 

Well u know wat they say, 2 celerongs dont make a right hehe

really dont see the point of having a dual core celeron now that the pentium has become the new budget replacement. wonder what the celeron wud be then?

considering you can still get a core duo or AMD X2 for under $1000, the new budget pentiums could have a very narrow market

 

No, actually they have taken over this sub-1000 market.
They come in at around $650, with a $300 premium normally placed on upgrading to a T5200 and $100 on going to one of the Turion X2s. These machines all have 1GB ram, 100GB hard drive, DVD burner, and integrated graphics. (prices and specs based on Gateways lineup). It really doesn't seem worth it for the minor spec bump to go for the Core 2 Duo proc, most people only need the thing that says dual core. Probably wont ever use it to the full potential. The budget pentiums have arguably the biggest market, they have reduced the price of getting a decent notebook down to sub-700.