Much of the time these days (this isn't true historically), Celerons are essentially old Pentiums that weren't up to spec. They disable some cache if necessary, and lock down the speed. Done.
One of the more bizarre fights is between the Pentium 4s and the Pentium Ms (intended for laptops) - a slower Pentium M can outperform a faster Pentium 4 because of the joys of the pipeline optimization. Some of the gamer mags were quite into Pentium M on the desktop a while back, for cheap performance.
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Date: 2006-04-28 03:44 pm (UTC)One of the more bizarre fights is between the Pentium 4s and the Pentium Ms (intended for laptops) - a slower Pentium M can outperform a faster Pentium 4 because of the joys of the pipeline optimization. Some of the gamer mags were quite into Pentium M on the desktop a while back, for cheap performance.