On 2 qchart feeds: Yeah, it sure seems to work. I had it from the qcharts head of development that it wouldn't, but maybe they decided the bookkeeping wasn't worth the candlestick - dunno. Anyhow, I like it.
On other processors beyond Celeron 466. The PIII chips give two significant benefits in certain contexts: The new parallel instruction set (I can't recall it's name -- MMX the next generation or something <g>) and a faster memory bus capability. Of course you can push to faster clock rates in the PIII too, provided you have a large enough nose to pay through.
What significance these things might have in what I infer is your situation I can't say. Mostly at present the new instructions are only made use of by high-end graphics packages (CAD, games, 3d graphics, etc), but who knows what'll come next.
What I CAN say, however, is you will almost certainly get nearly as big a bang for a lot fewer bucks with the Celeron. At least now.
In January, who knows? If you get brave, some Celerons overclock well, increasing the bang and lowering the bucks, but it's probably not what you want to spend your time on.
I must say what has made a big difference to me is Ultra DMA. I've measured (actually measured, not just read about) 16MB per second
disk transfers on my system (with overclocked Celeron <gg>).
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