Price Guides, May 2005: Processors

Intel Celeron D

Celeron is also getting a facelift. The existing “3x5” and “3x0” processors will all increase their product number by one, but gain EM64T extensions. This is an interesting move, since AMD has put some emphasis on 64-bit instructions for their non-budge chips only. Unilateral 64-bit support sounds pretty nice.

Pentium M

Don’t forget to check out Anand’s details on ASUS’s Socket 479 to Socket 478 adaptor. Pentium M seems to be losing headlines and fanfare faster than American Idol - mostly due to non-competitive pricing, poor motherboards and better alternatives from AMD and Intel. After all, why buy a $300 processor with a $200 motherboard on slow memory that won’t outperform a $200 Venice processor?


The only Pentium M that seems to be showing any movement at all is the 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 [RTPE: BXM80536GC1700F]. Prices are still highway robbery, but at least the CPU is $10 cheaper than it was a month ago: