Celeron v's Pentium P4

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All

It specific help needed here.

I am doing a financial review of the pros and cons of using Celeron processors against Pentium P4 processors in kit we lease to our customers.

On the one hand I'm told by our UK guys that there should be no problem, but on the other hand my sales colleagues in another European country tell me they can only sell a lease with a Pentium P4, not a Celeron.

I know that our product works equally well on either processor, but overall are there any major differences for other general programs out there between the two processors, or am I being given a bit of flannel from the sales guys?

I thought I'd cousult the might of the PH IT brigade as well as internal sources to help me uinderstand the overall issues.

Please bear in mind I'm not a techie so you might have to explain some things as I thought a Celeron was just a slightly cheaper and slightly slower chip but was essentially the same.

many thanks

Chris

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Cheers guys it seems the sales bods were doing the flannel exercise - not surprised given some of their past activities.

Our product is not CAD/CAM or image manipulation so we don't need the procesing capacity of the P4.

My internal IT guys tell me we can simply substitute a Celeron with a bit of extra RAM for a P4 the standard RAM we supply and most times our customers would never know the difference in performance.

Chris