Question about a New computer

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Originally posted by Joeiss
Okay, me and my dad went to FutureShop today, and they had like the latest, best computers selling for 1500-2500 bucks. Then, we looked at some of the Celerons which were only 500-800 bucks. These Celerons were pretty decent too. Specs : 256 DDR RAM, 40 GB HD, 40X CD-RW, 16X DVD ROM, 32MB graphics card, 1.8 Ghz, 6 USB 2.0 slots. I mean, that is a pretty good computer 600 bucks Canadian.


Now, I have a Pentium 2, 200 Mgz right now... And it is slow and crappy. My question is, should my dad buy this Celeron computer for a cheap price, or should we buy like a P4, 2.5 Ghz, top of the line everything?

Now keep in mind that my family and I only use the computer for word processing, internet use and we will be burning CD's. So, which one should my dad buy (and he doesn't mind upgrading again in like 3 years)?

Future Shop


k...first of all, i think you should go with the AMD XP althought the new generation of celerons is nothing like the old ones that all of us have passionately come to hate, and if you're not going to use it for games, than simply get a $700 system, and use you're old monitor. And AMD XP although the processor speed in "Mhz" may seem smaller, this can be extremely misleading as AMD is much more efficient in it's use of each Mhz, so in fact, the newest P4 and the newest AMD are basically equal