When my dad bought one he told me outright "this is for poor people".
replyI have some fond memories from my celeron days :) But I was upgrading from AMD K5 100 MHz
replyI had a 600MHz/64MB/9GB laptop that came with Windows mistake edition. I managed to survive first year of uni on it by switching to Vector Linux, which was really fast compared to Windows. (Of course, it had issues playing sound from more than one source, this was oss days).
replyThen one day the hard drive appeared to die. I eventually realised the issue was located around the 1.5gb mark, so I recreated my Linux partitions after 2gb and it worked fine for the rest of the year.
They overclocked well though, I think you could run the 300Mhz chips at >400Mhz.
replyI also believe you could get motherboards that supported 2 Celeron chips. I have no idea how effective/useful it was, but it was certainly a cheap/interesting way to get multiple CPU's.