Which is better XP or XP Pro?

[EWRFOX]

OK I found this

Toshiba Satellite A65
Intel® Celeron® processor 2.80GHzª
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
256MB PC2700 DDR333 SDRAM
15" XGA Display (1024 x 76
ATI® Mobility Radeon® 7000 IGP w/64MB shared video memory
60GB HDD (4200 rpm)
DVD/CD-RW
Integrated Atheros

$ 1079.00

How is Intel® Celeron® processor 2.80GHzª? Is this good, and the system how is it? Is this worth the price?

Thanks

[Katamarino]

Avoid Celeron, avoid Celeron! Horrible chip cache, and generally much poorer performance than the AMD Athlon - staggeringly so in fact.

Anything but Celeron, and Duron isn't much better

[mikecweb]

Avoid Celeron, avoid Celeron! Horrible chip cache,

TECHY!!!!!!!!!

[Katamarino]

It wasn't my fault, a nerd made me read it!

[Leftseat86]

Celeron = the suckness.

AMD Athlon XP = the coolness...

*me has Athlon 2600XP+ @ 2.1gHz*

-Clovisness

[Crazy764]

Celeron = the suckness.

AMD Athlon XP = the coolness...

*me has Athlon 2600XP+ @ 2.1gHz*

-Clovisness

Gotta agree with that one.

*me has Athlon 3200XP+ @ 2.2gHz*

[chrisburns]

Again Centrino, you will get longer battery life and is the fastest processor on the market. I get 6hrs and 5min of battery life with my centrino, the computer runs much cooler the a P4. Centrino also allows for lighter and thinner laptops. Celeron, bad choice, Celeron is a very old chip that actually many programs cant run on.

[Cubana]

I have a Dell laptop with Pentium 4 processor. I never used it outside home, so I don't really know about the battery. But for the rest, I am really happy with it.

[Japan AirLines747]

Windows XP Professional i recommend!!!

[babypurin]

Go with XP Home!

[aloges]

I installed XP Pro in 9/2001 and didn't have to re-install it since then - it works just great. OK, I get the occasional little IE/Windows Explorer meltdown, but that's it, blue screens are a thing of the past. I use Norton AntiVirus, AdAware, Spybot, the itty-bitty built-in Windows firewall and that Windows HD cleanup thingy to keep my PC clean, and that keeps working. I should add that my internet access is via a Linux-based router that blocks almost everything except a few ports (not that I notice any problems due to that), so a hacker would need to get around this first of all.

As for the CPU, check out the Pentium M/Centrino technology.