Quake3World

I'm helping my parents get a new computer. They don't game and in fact don't do much to tax their present computer at all. They want to go low budget.

My question is, how good are the celeron's nowadays? I'm looking at a system with a celeron d 336 2.8 ghz, considering that versus a p4 3.0 ghz chip which would be about $90 more in total. Both system's come with half a gig of ram. Should I go celeron? Will it last them for the next 5 years of internet browsing, sending digital photos through email etc. Should I up the ram to 1 gig?

Thanks for any opinions.

i'd save the $90 and go with more ram.

Vista isn't going to factor into this given what puff's said about them going low budget and lasting 5 years.

Unless something bizarre happens that cripples XP.

ah yes was going to ask if you think they should go vista or xp...

thanks guys. :icon25:

For what they're going to be doing, XP.