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    New Celeron C220 1.2Ghz used in ASUS products

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Fishy, Feb 5, 2009.

  1. Fishy

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    Hi I was just looking to get a second notebook thats really cheap and I was looking at a brand new ASUS laptop that came out.
    Its the X58 and its running strangely enough on a 1.2 Ghz Celeron 220 cpu!
    You can see it here
    http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/ASUS_X58C_AP008A_X58C-AP008A/version.asp

    Its only 300euro and actually doesnt look bad. But how would the performance of this new processor be? Especially considering the fact that the laptops comes with Vista..???
    I heard the CPU is 30+% faster than the 1.6Ghz Intel Atom but uses more power..

    Id be interested to hear what your opinion are on this new processor and notebook..
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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  3. Fishy

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    But how would this laptop perform on Vista? or even on XP...?
    I cant imagine it being great..
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    It's probably not going to be great. But it won't be worse than an Atom. If you've seen benches of the Celeron 430, I think you can kind of get a feel for what performance on this thing'll be like.
     
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    a celeron 410 was the worst cpu i have ever seen it ran vista like crap. 1.46gb 533mhz fsb 1mb l2 cache 32bit.
     
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  6. Fishy

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    yeah but the thing about this one is that it supports 64bit..
    But I think I would just go for the model that comes with the Intel Dual Core T3200. Performance would be way better and it's €80 extra. With that you also get upgraded to Vista Premium and 2gb RAM instead of 1gb and Vista Basic
     
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  7. Commander Wolf

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    Yes... but the 410 is a completely different chip with a significantly different (and older) architecture. It's also a dedicated mobile processor (unlike the 220 which seems to be a repackaged desktop part), so it's bound to be slower. That's not to say the 220 is any good, but this isn't a fair comparison.

    Seeing as the rest of the Celerons in that series are 64bit, what's so unusual? Nonetheless, I think it'll be wise to choose the T3200 over the Celeron. A Celeron is a Celeron and is still a Celeron no matter how you look at it :D
     
    Commander Wolf, Feb 5, 2009
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