Is a celeron really bad no matter how many cores?

[ExoMale]

i know from owning single and dual core celerons in laptops and desktops they can be okay, but are generally rubbish, but have been pretty old versions in some cases, would the same apply to the quad version?

I Saw an Asus X453M on a private sale for £100, not it doesn't state processor just that it has 2gb ram and 500gb hdd and from looking up the model I discovered it's not a too old of a laptop it seems if it only comes with win 8.1 or win 10(according to Asus site) which at the same time I noticed it has 3 processor options, dual core celeron, quad core celeron and a pentium quad which then led me on to the question more in general as chances are this one I've seen in the dual celeron which is probably more common ha.

 

[eddiew]

Depends what the laptop is for... if it's a browsing/emailing/youtube machine, then a celery will do for that.

That said, I wouldn't touch anything with 2gb of ram, because that isn't good enough for anything, imo. One browser tab, or one media player, or one email application - your choice which you do at a time

 

[Minstadave]

All three CPUs are derived from the Intel Atom line - they're no performance monsters, essentially they're tablet CPUs really.

I wouldn't touch the dual core with a barge pole. Between the two quads there's very little (if any) difference apart from their clock speeds - the Pentium is about 20% faster.

The quads are fine for basic tasks.

 

[Danny75]

Depends what the laptop is for... if it's a browsing/emailing/youtube machine, then a celery will do for that.

 

[HangTime]

No good nowadays, but they used to be decent a while back. My 300A cost £64.63 and performed essentially the same as the fastest cpu on the market when overclocked.