Maxit Mag

When Intel released it's Core 2 architecture last summer, there was a product missing from the list: single core solutions.

As they moved on, there was a change of plans, and the Core 2 Solo mutated into the Pentium E1000 and Celeron families. Finally, only the latter remains single core, while the Pentium E2000 will be dual core (with even less cache than Allendale).

If you don't care about multithreaded performance, the Celeron 420 at 1.6 Ghz (with 512 Kb of L2 and a FSB of 800 Mhz) could be what you were waiting for. They don't overclock as well as their big brothers, but at such low prices (down to 40€) you get a much better CPU than what the blue boys have been offering under the Celeron name for the last six or seven years.