By Desire Athow
There’s an entry for a humble microprocessor on Urban Dictionary which was written back in 2006. The author decided to vent his frustration using very colourful language to describe, what is essentially, a piece of silicon. That product is the Intel Celeron, and the post ends with the parting shot: “Anyone with a Celeron in their computer clearly has no idea what they are doing.”
“Lament”, the author, doesn’t seem to be the only one to think that. More than 400 people have upvoted his comment and although his vitriolic outpouring is nearly 10 years old, Intel’s Celeron processor has been vilified before and ever since.
Scour the internet and it becomes evident that the Celeron is often singled out as being by far the most hated, but also most misunderstood processor Intel has ever produced (it also earned nicknames such as De-Celeron or Celeri).
This was not always the case, though. In its early days, back in the late 1990s, the Celeron was a well-kept secret in the PC community. Intel introduced it to compete with a resurgent AMD at the lower-end and the first few models were particularly popular with hardware enthusiasts.
They found out that Celeron could be very easily …read more
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