Mobile Pentium III versus Celeron decision assistance needed!

[Citadel535]

Hey everyone,

I am looking at two laptops. Both are Toshiba Satellite 1800s.

However, one has a 1GHz Celeron and the other a 1GHz Pentium III-M. What are the differences between these two? The price difference is only $200 and I am not sure if it is worth going with PIII or the Celeron.

Here are the stats:
1GHz Celeron (Satellite 1800-S204) or 1GHz Pentium III-M (Satellite 1800-S254)
256MB SDRAM
20GB Hard Drive
DVD-ROM
56k Modem (To dial in to my home server to access the Internet)
10/100 Mbps Ethernet Adapter

Please help me out since this will be my final answer!

Thanks,
Mike

 

[SickBeast]

the difference is that the P3 uses a more advanced 0.13 micron fab process, and it has some data prefetch functions which make it substantially faster than the celeron. add to this the fact that the P3 has 256kb of 8-way cache compared to the 128kb of 4-way cache of the celeron. basically, and i don't have figures to back this up, the P3 should be about 20% faster than the celeron, depending on the application. i would ask toshiba if their cpus are upgradeable, then make my decision based on that. if you can upgrade the cpu, go with the P3 because it will give you more of an upgrade path. i hope this helps,

dave.

 

[Spikesoldier]

Celeron vs Pentium III - Go Pentium III. They have speedstep which would let you get more life out of your battery. Celerons don't have this feature. And do you really need 1GHz? You could get by with 700 or 800MHz. That should be about the same price as the mobile Celeron you were planning to buy. Not to mention the extra cache, instructions, and other benefits from getting a Pentium III (Before the Tualitins) than a Celeron.