Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:08:22 09/14/01
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On September 13, 2001 at 23:48:27, J. C. Boco wrote: >Given these two processors (and the MHz chosen is arbitrary), how much weaker >will the Celeron be? Can anyone give any specifics? > >I'm thinking of getting a new computer soon and would love the portability >factor of a laptop, and only the cooler chips like the celeron are in those. The main difference is in the size of the L2 cache. Otherwise the processors are essentially the same. For small programs the Celeron will do fine. For larger programs (bigger memory/cache footprints) the PIII will do better. And the xeons with even bigger L2 cache will do even better.
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