Quote from Forum Archives on June 2, 2000, 11:59 pm

Posted by: daveshoe <daveshoe@...>

Lorenz:

There's a little confusion here. Let me see if I can clarify...

Intel makes both chips. They have (basically) two product lines: their
Pentium line, and their Celeron line. Pentiums began at a whopping 60 MHz,
and now can be purchased (for a LOT of money!) as fast as 933 MHz! The
Pentium has always carried a rather steep price, in my not-so-humble opinion.

When Intel began losing market share to two lesser priced competitors (AMD
and Cyrix), they were forced to either sell their Pentiums for less, or
introduce another "budget" processor line. They introduced the Celeron
chip, and it was an abysmal failure! The chip absolutely did not perform
ANYTHING like the competition, due to some poor chip feature
designs. Intel, being about as much of a monopoly as Microsoft is, wasn't
used to getting black eyes in the marketplace. They quickly redesigned and
reintroduced the Celeron "a" chips. The reviewers were quite skeptical at
first, but once the new design was benchmark tested, everyone was quite
surprised at the quality and functionality of the chip.

I have personally benchmark tested a Celeron 433a chip against a Pentium
III 450 (in the exact same machine) and the "slower" (433 vs. 450 MHz) and
cheaper Celeron (at the time, the Celeron was $50 less!) outperformed the
Pentium on all but one test!

Now, for full disclosure, I am currently running twin Pentium III 550's in
my computer, but this is a very high end machine built for resale.

The only thing that Celeron is less capable at is really high-end gaming,
Computer-aided Design (CAD), and intense graphics or video editing. If
you're planning on that sort of thing, then save your money and buy the
Celeron, and use the extra cash for more RAM! For general applications
(e.g., Internet browsing, word processing, e-mail, etc.), the Celeron is a
fine decision.

It's the same recommendation I make to my clients.

Hope this helps!

Dave
mailto:[email protected]

At 09:16 PM 6/2/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I am planning on buying a new computer. Which processor would you
>recommend?
>
>Intel Pentium Celeron 533 Mhz
>Intel Pentium III 600 Mhz Coppermine
>
>The Celeron is a bit cheaper. What is the difference between Pentium
>Celeron and Pentium III? Thanks
>
>Lorenz
>
>
>
>--
>Questions asked, and answers provided in this email list may be published
>in a special column in Christian Computing Magazine. For more information
>on subscribing to Christian Computing Magazine online, go to
>www.gospelcom.net/ccmag/ccstore/subscribe.html
><
>To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <[email protected]>