Gene, about Albert Yu saying Celeron chips won't have an L2 cache, I think he was misquoted, as you allude to. Either that, or he was referring to the first Celeron, code-named Covington. The Intel page I URL'd in the post yours is in response to said that the second Celeron, code-named Mendocino, would have up to 256K of L2 available.
BTW, FWIW, I have talked to our system performance architects about the importance of L2 cache, and, they said, as I suspected, for Windows 98 type applications, such as Word, Excel, Project, etc., it won't be missed at all. Sure, you won't use Covington in a server or high speed workstation. That's not what it is targeted for. It's kind of like you wouldn't put a 120 horsepower engine into a Corvette, but, in a Honda Civic, it will do just fine.
Tony |
