It was going great till it listed the celefail. Burn it, burn it with fire and brimstone.
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It was going great till it listed the celefail. Burn it, burn it with fire and brimstone.
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I thought the same thing. What is this, 1999?
How hackintoshable is it? It’s a pretty good price despite the disappointing processor.
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I thought the same thing. What is this, 1999?
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Intel’s used the Celeron brand for the low-end of every generation, so this Celeron is not the same as the Celeron from 1999
Acer notebooks are GARBAGE. They run slow, they use cheap hard drives that die after a year or two, and their support site is absolute trash. Having used about a dozen manufacturer’s websites to download drivers for freshly formatted laptops, I can safely say that Acer’s is by far the worst. You’re lucky if you can even get past the “There should be flash content here” page.
Pony up the extra $100 and get a shiny NEW Lenovo.
Got practically the same thing from microcenter but new and for cheaper. Woot, I’m disappointed in you. : (
Stay AWAY from Acer. I liked them at first but boy do they suck when something goes wrong, which is usually just after the year warranty expires. Even the recovery disks I made didn’t work. Acer is -0- help, too. How hard is it to offer at least -some- assistance to customers either online or via phone. CHEAP CHINESE GARBAGE. Sad product, too bad.
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I thought the same thing. What is this, 1999?
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Celeron processors are just as fast as their cousins, they simply have less cache. So for little spurts of high-intensity activity, they’re fine. It’s the long sequential operations where the extra cache comes in handy, being able to optimize the instructions, do better branch prediction, etc. For email, word processing, surfing the net, etc., Celerons are fine. For gaming, databases, media generation, etc., you’ll want something more powerful (and aren’t likely looking at this woot anyway).
hey, it’s not the best specs, but if you can handle the size and weight, it kicks any netbook’s butt… and it has a DVD drive.
CeleRun! processor and Vista basic = I don’t think so.
had one of these. would never buy another acer aspire again. it was so bad i wouldn’t ever buy an acer again. this was the most unreliable computer we’ve ever owned. I am not surprised that this is a refurb. from my experience they should have a huge load of refurbs.
beware!
I thought Centrino finally replaced it.
In any case, this is a poor purchase when that is only $100 more: Shop: Dell Site Map of All Products, Solutions & Services | Dell USA
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Celeron processors are just as fast as their cousins, they simply have less cache. So for little spurts of high-intensity activity, they’re fine. It’s the long sequential operations where the extra cache comes in handy, being able to optimize the instructions, do better branch prediction, etc. For email, word processing, surfing the net, etc., Celerons are fine. For gaming, databases, media generation, etc., you’ll want something more powerful (and aren’t likely looking at this woot anyway).
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I seem to remember playing the waiting game when watching video on a celeryon.
I’m actually more intrigued by the work of the person whose picture is being used as the screen. Constanza | Flickr
You’re complaining they don’t know the difference between sellout.woot! and a woot-off, but in doing so, you attribute an Engadget piece to Gizmodo? Nice.
Looks alright but I am afraid of the Celeron.
But in case you want the Acer product page…
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How hackintoshable is it? It’s a pretty good price despite the disappointing processor.
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It supports SSE3 (List of Intel Celeron processors - Wikipedia) so you should be alright.
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Celeron processors are just as fast as their cousins, they simply have less cache. So for little spurts of high-intensity activity, they’re fine. It’s the long sequential operations where the extra cache comes in handy, being able to optimize the instructions, do better branch prediction, etc. For email, word processing, surfing the net, etc., Celerons are fine. For gaming, databases, media generation, etc., you’ll want something more powerful (and aren’t likely looking at this woot anyway).
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On paper maybe. Intel produces chips in bulk. Those that pass the quality test get labeled as the regular Intel chips, those that surpass the quality tests are Extreme Editions (Or whatever you kids call them now a days) and those that completely and utterly tank the quality test, get labeled as Celeron. So not only does your mileage vary with the shitty things, but you’re essentially buying fail in every sense of the word.
Maybe someday they’d just scrap those CPUs and try again; but as long as they can get people to buy defunct CPUs they’ll keep at it.