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    Celeron D ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Granddaddy1, Oct 11, 2005.

  1. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    I saw this is what the Thinkpad G41 in it.
    Can someone tell me;if it's anygood?
    I don't want to dish-out $708.00 for garbage!!
     
    Granddaddy1, Oct 11, 2005
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    It will be fine sitting on your desk. Battery life won't be very good. G series is getting a little old and due for a refresh.
     
    ZaZ, Oct 11, 2005
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    Celeron D is good enough for office type work. word processing, excel, interent. Nothing more than that. I recently built a Celeron D desktop which is plenty fast as long as you don't need anything CPU intensive. Celeron D are crippled by their small amount of cache.
     
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    How to build a Thinkpad G laptop.

    1) Take a desktop processor (preferrably a hot one)
    2) Snap a nuclear power plant on it to cool it down
    3) Find some plastic in a dumpster near you, cut it with rusty scissors and paint it black
    4) Construct the ugliest laptop case you can from the plastic you found
    5) Stick processor and cooling device inside the laptop case
    6) Take your old kitchen knife and cut out some I/O ports on the back and side panels
     
    dr_st, Oct 11, 2005
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    bhtooefr Notebook Consultant

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    Exactly.

    The ThinkPad G series will have VERY poor battery life. Seeing as it has a 74-82W desktop CPU, it'll also have heat issues.

    In addition, with power adaptor, the thing weighs NINE POINT NINE EIGHT POUNDS!
     
    bhtooefr, Oct 11, 2005
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    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    LOL....................I like that.Well,I'll be staying away from the G41!!Well,it'll be between the T23,X23,X24,R40,T22,& R50!
     
    Granddaddy1, Oct 11, 2005
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  7. thePCxp

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    I think that that's kind of mean. :mad:
     
    thePCxp, Oct 16, 2005
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    Yeah, it is mean. But no real harm done.
     
    dr_st, Oct 16, 2005
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    Mean, but deserved, thePCxp.

    The G series truly does have no reason to exist - the R series is MUCH lighter, and has better battery life to boot.

    Besides, the cheapest R series is now cheaper than the cheapest G series. So, price isn't the reason, either.
     
    bhtooefr, Oct 16, 2005
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    vkyr Notebook Consultant

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    Well, for most people the G series looks like heavy desktop-like monsters. But are those really ugly sort of desktop replacements? - I don't know.

    However, I believe that those G series monsters will have first class keyboards/trackpoints and that they would also surpass some of these torture tests here without much problems, see...

    http://29991.forum.onetwomax.de/topic=105681199464

    On the other side I highly agree, that the R series and now also the new Z60m notebooks would offer here much more in the direction as portable desktop replacement notebooks.

    Related to the Celeron D CPUs, yes, these are more meant to be low-cost CPUs, which offer slightly limited performance in contrast to the Pentium-M based CPUs with a dedicated cache. - However, as somebody already said, for usual office like tasks, small SoHO mini-servers etc. the Celeron CPUs will still do it.
     
    vkyr, Oct 16, 2005
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  11. bhtooefr

    bhtooefr Notebook Consultant

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    A G40/41 with the necessary power adaptor (it takes a 120W adaptor, IIRC) weighs 9.98lbs. It was introduced as a mobile workstation (same role as the T40p that it was released alongside), AFAICT, but it's got an anemic GeForce Go FX5200, which is an old and SLOW GPU.

    I haven't compared a fast G41 config to a fast R52 config, but I'm fairly sure I could beat one on price and performance, not to mention size, with an R52...

    Also, for a personal server, I'd probably buy a used and abused X series. Or, just make this X21 my personal server when it gets retired.
     
    bhtooefr, Oct 16, 2005
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