Re: Pentium vs Celeron

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From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:13:40 +0200

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:03:22 -0800, "MacKenrick"

>"Bottom-line , the Celeron is fine for surfing and word-processing, but
>for big databases, spreadsheets and multimedia, the P4 will out perform
>by a strong margin."

That hasn't been my experience, I have to tell you. Modern systems
eat yesterday's hero apps (CAD, spreadsheets, multimedia, databases)
for breakfast and I don't see Pentium making a big difference there.

Serving a database to multiple PCs making unrelated requests; that may
be a different matter, as would be the *creation* of multimedia.
Those applications require more thought throughout the system; perhaps
SCSI for the server, xIDE RAID for the latter's workspace, and boss
RAM for both (served on an up-to-speed motherboard chipset).

On AMD vs. Intel; I don't see that as a processor decision, but as a
platform decision. I go Intel because I don't trust SiS or VIA, and
don't know enough about nVidia's motherboard chipsets to make a stand
on them. A bad chipset can make life hell! If it were the old
Socket7 days, I might be building AMD processors on Intel chipsets :-)

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