I actually wouldn't be surprised at all that AMD chips (at whatever speed they're up to now) are better and/or faster than their pentium equivalents. When the AMD K6 came out, it tested out at notably higher clock speeds than the fastest Pentium on the market at the time. The problems arise over compatibility with Microsoft's software, especially Windows OS's. That was even true of the Celeron. The techies told me that Celeron wasn't really a bad processor, it's just that MS software didn't particularly like working with the Celeron processor.
I still wouldn't put it past Intel and Microsoft to have some sort of backroom deal that gives the Pentium chips the edge over the others with regard to how Microsoft software works with the various processors. Just my suspicion, completely unfounded on any real facts...
Well, facts should never get in the way of really good suspicions....
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I upgraded my old PB from a Pentium 90 to an AMD K6 450. Windows 95 wouldn't run with the AMD chip. After I upgraded the OS to Win 98SE it worked fine! (well about as fine as Win98SE ever runs.) In my new computer I'm running AMD Athlon 1.4 with Win98SE. My laptop runs Windows Me on a Celeron...it's not
that bad. :)
I think lots of RAM helps more than processor speed but then I'm not doing anything fancy on my computers!