Performance is somewhere between the original Atom-based Chromebooks and the current Celeron-equipped Series-5 model.
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The Celeron was received frostily by the market, because it was deemed too slow.
Though you can choose a Core i3, i5 or i7 CPU, for instance, they actually start with Celeron.
The HP Pavilion Chromebook features an Intel Celeron processor, signaling low cost and only enough processor performance for task workers.
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"My gut feeling is that Duron is going to be comparable" in performance to a Celeron, Mercury Research's McCarron said.
Surprisingly, the notebook is powered by a 1.7GHz Intel Pentium M processor, which is a notch above the Celeron we anticipated.
Intel's fastest low-end Celeron microprocessor runs at 500 MHz but the company is expected to unveil a 533 MHz version next month.
It has an Intel Celeron 847 clocked at 1.1 GHz, 2GB of RAM (expandable to 4GB), and a 16GB SSD drive.
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Emachines will provide detailed specifications upon release, but the entire notebooks family will be available with Celeron and mobile Pentium III processors.
We test each drive with a Micron 433-MHz Celeron system equipped with 64MB of SDRAM, a 10GB hard disk, and a DVD-ROM drive.
"The K6 family has undergone a lot of competitive pressure against Celeron, " said Mario Morales, director of semiconductor research with market researcher International Data Corp.
That's not such a bad deal, considering it comes with a Celeron M 420 CPU, 15-inch screen, DVD and CD burner, 512MB RAM and a 60GB hard drive.
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All the Celeron and Pentium models have two cores and two threads each, but the Core kicks it up to four threads with the help of Hyperthreading.
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Intel brought out the Celeron chip, a cheap product that was ideal for the new low-end PCs, and within a year it had captured thirty-five per cent of the market.
Perhaps most importantly, analysts said, the new architecture should allow AMD to keep boosting the clock speed of Duron to keep pace with -- or even stay ahead of -- Intel's Celeron.
Intel's aim is to keep its overall gross margin above 50%: although the firm will make less money on Celeron chips than on Pentiums, it hopes to offset this by selling expensive Xeons.
Users will likely be let down by the paltry 1.46GHz Intel Celeron M 410 processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 60GB hard drive, and lack of Bluetooth, but hey, you get what you pay for.
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Powered by an Intel Celeron 847 processor (2MB L3 cache, 1.10GHz, DDR3 1333 MHz) and 2GB of DDR3 memory, the Acer C7 provides the performance to speed through the web, access files, enjoy video and more.
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The fastest version of Intel's Celeron available today runs at 600MHz, but the chip giant later this month plans to release faster versions running at 633MHz, 667MHz and 700MHz, according to a source close to Intel.
While the source is in machine-translated Japanese, that table comparing the Atom with Eee PC 900's Celeron and a typical ULV Core 2 Duo found in a wide range of full-sized, ultra-portable laptops speaks for itself.
Specs on this one are almost identical to the Samsung Q1, as the two devices share the same low voltage 900MHz Intel Celeron processor, 7-inch touchscreen, 512MB of RAM, and of course, Windows XP Tablet Edition operating system.
EMachines' bottom-of-the-heap machine comes with a 1.1 gigaherz Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Celeron processor, 128 megabytes of SDRAM, a 20-gigabyte hard drive and a line of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people ) software already installed.
The little 14-inch Chromebook runs Google's eponymous OS with an Intel Celeron 847 CPU clocked at 1.1GHz, an Intel HD GPU, 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM (expandable up to 4GB), and 16GB of SSD storage space, put to use on the 14-inch HD BrightView LED-backlit display (1366 x 768 resolution).
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