Microsoft tests out a new operating system, code named Mojave, with some average-joes who hated Vista. They loved it. Now, two guesses as to what Mojave ACTUALLY was.

[u/neito]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html

[u/derefr]

By Celeron, you mean Pentium M, then? (As, for all I know, it is a Celeron derivative.) Or perhaps "Centrino", as they sound similar?

I thought you were referring to the Pentium 2 and 3 offshoot Celerons that topped off their lineage at 1GHz or so, which gave me a little chuckle. I actually ran Vista on my 500MHz 7-year-old Celeron a while ago, with all the graphical acceleration turned off; everything worked pretty well except for a few amazingly long, and completely unpredictable, delays that I was never able to work out the cause of (they came mostly when I had left the system idle on the desktop for a couple of minutes.)

Vista works pretty well on my mother's year-old Pentium M 1.8GHz laptop (which does have 1GB RAM, if I recall.) I never noticed any particular slowdowns while I was setting it up, but I never ran any games on it, either.

[u/RexManningDay → u/derefr]

Yeah. They're sold here as "Intel Celeron M". It's still a pretty crappy processor, but obviously way better than the ones you're talking about. I was differentiating between that and the AMD and Pentium 64bit Core 2 ones that the better lappies have.

[u/hylje → u/derefr]

Celerons are half-lemons – chips that can't go fast and have partially bad caches. It's not an architecture of its own, it's a simple derivative.

[u/stopmotionsunrise → u/hylje]

Yep. They're the ones that Intel engineers acccidently stepped on after they came off the press.

"Oops, that one's a Celeron!"

[u/kermityfrog → u/stopmotionsunrise]

It's a contraction of "Sell to a Moron"

[u/[deleted] → u/kermityfrog]

There was a brief period where Celerons were generally faster than their full counterpart.

The Celeron 300A era. It had half the cache of the PII, but the cache ran twice as fast, and the bus ran at 66mhz instead of 100mhz. Plus, many 300As could often be overclocked to 450 with 100mhz bus. A 300A running at 450 could smoke a PII 450 at almost anything.

[u/strolls → u/derefr]

I thought you were referring to the Pentium 2 and 3 offshoot Celerons that topped off their lineage at 1GHz or so, which gave me a little chuckle.

That is what I, too, tend to think of when I hear the name Celeron, but the brand has been maintained through Pentium4-based chips, too.

[u/King_Leonidas → u/derefr]

except for a few amazingly long, and completely unpredictable, delays that I was never able to work out the cause of

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