I’d like to install Avast on my laptop.According to its official web site the minimum hardware requirements include a Pentium 3 processor.My laptop has a Celeron 1.6 GHz processor.Is it good enough ?
hi Taxin,
For a definitive answer, please provide the make, model, manufacture date of your laptop.
Otherwise, you can have a look here to see what cpu information might apply to your machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron You can also go to your manufacturer’s website and enter the same make, model information there and determine what Celeron version you have.
Hi mchain,
Thanks for answering my inquiry promptly.I had checked wikipedia before, but it wasn’t very clear.
I’ve a 7 y.o. Acer TravelMate 2490 with Intel(R) Celeron(R) M 420 (1.6GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 cache)
Took me a bit to find the correct information for you:
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/0000/Acer/TravelMate2490/TravelMate2490sp2.shtml
http://ark.intel.com/products/27149/Intel-Celeron-M-Processor-420-1M-Cache-1_60-GHz-533-MHz-FSB
You can use this Acer page and click “System Information” link to get the specific setup for your laptop here: http://support.acer.com/us/en/default.aspx
Not familiar with this processor, possibly made after 2004?, but should support Avast! as it is at least a PIII equivalent or greater.
Upgrading to system limit of 2 GB RAM will certainly help things run better here.
Intel data pdf has it as a 65nm processor circa January 2007: http://download.intel.com/support/processors/mobile/celeron/sb/31272604.pdf
I think the particular CPU model is not that important (I don’t think avast! uses any special instructions, so it should theoretically run on 486 maybe; or rather, it does, but it should always check the CPU capabilities and fall back to “old” code if the CPU doesn’t support the particular extension).
So the requirements are more about the “general system”… the amount of memory might be of concern specifically, slow hard drive may also be noticeable etc.