Gutspiller
08-12-2002, 11:49 AM
MAINSTREAM PC USERS love big numbers, especially when those numbers are followed by the letters M, H, and z. As inappropriate a measure of overall system performance as a processor's clock speed may be, it still sells. Just this year I saw a Dell ad hawking 2GHz Pentium 4-based PCs saddled with slow PC100 SDRAM and TNT M64 graphics cards. Talk about a cruel abuse of consumer ignorance!
Intel's previous Celeron offerings have been limited to clock speeds up to 1.4GHz, and that just doesn't give them a very big lead over 1.3GHz Duron processors from AMD. Differences in actual performance aside, Intel lacked a comfortable lead in perceived speed. I guess it was only a matter of time before Intel leveraged its MHz-friendly Pentium 4 architecture to produce a new Celeron with a higher clock speed.
Tech-Report.com (http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q3/celeron-1.7/index.x?pg=1)
Intel's previous Celeron offerings have been limited to clock speeds up to 1.4GHz, and that just doesn't give them a very big lead over 1.3GHz Duron processors from AMD. Differences in actual performance aside, Intel lacked a comfortable lead in perceived speed. I guess it was only a matter of time before Intel leveraged its MHz-friendly Pentium 4 architecture to produce a new Celeron with a higher clock speed.
Tech-Report.com (http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q3/celeron-1.7/index.x?pg=1)