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Pentium 3 or Celeron M?
Name: Curious Chris Date: December 6, 2005 at 17:52:25 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: p3 1 ghz celron m ghz
Comment:
I'm looking for a notebook and i found a pentium 3 notebook for 1 ghz and a celeron m notebook also at 1 ghz. both have the exact amount of Ram and hard drive space and the same operating system. Which one is better?
Name: SkipCox Date: December 6, 2005 at 19:16:36 Pacific
Reply:
I go for the PIII because you gave no real info.
I need the exact models of the two different notebooks before I can give ya a real answer...the other few million folks willing to help you need that same information.
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Response Number 2
Name: jackbomb Date: December 6, 2005 at 19:33:13 Pacific
Reply:
Celeron M. -Based on newer architecture. -4x more cache (256KB on P3, 1MB on Celly-M) -much faster fsb, RAM, etc -assuming both use integrated GFX, the Celly-M will have much faster video performance.
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