For a notebook: What would feel faster with 128 megs of memory...

[Kaieye]

Celeron 800 or a P3-700? Or would they "feel" to be equally responsive??

Thanks for reading.


Kaieye

 

[Scatterpack]

I think it is more dependent on the type of OS.

 

[UltraWide]

with 128MB I would go for the P-700 since it has the larger cache.
I think 256MB is the minimum for anything to run at decent speeds.

 

[dnuggett]

What are you proposing that the machines do? What work do you want them to accomplish?

 

[VTboy]

If your talking about the ULV-Celeron 800A than that one would be much faster than a P3 700, these come with some Sony Laptops. The ULV Celeron 800A from sony are based off banias core and have 512KB of L2 cache.

 

[VTboy]

What notebooks are these.

 

[jschuk]

Depends on what applications are being run. Assuming the CPU run at the same FSB, then I would go for the Celeron for basic tasks and the PIII if you plan on working in large spreadsheets, picture/video editing. I don't know if the mobile Celeron supports SSE, but those instruction sets could offset the MHz difference.

 

[VTboy]

I should point out that a 800MHZ ULV Celeron is about as fast a 1.0GHZ P3.