Specs on this one are almost identical to the Samsung Q1, as the two devices share the same low voltage 900MHz Intel Celeron processor, 7-inch touchscreen, 512MB of RAM, and of course, Windows XP Tablet Edition operating system.

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Perhaps most importantly, analysts said, the new architecture should allow AMD to keep boosting the clock speed of Duron to keep pace with -- or even stay ahead of -- Intel's Celeron.

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Intel's fastest low-end Celeron microprocessor runs at 500 MHz but the company is expected to unveil a 533 MHz version next month.

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EMachines' bottom-of-the-heap machine comes with a 1.1 gigaherz Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Celeron processor, 128 megabytes of SDRAM, a 20-gigabyte hard drive and a line of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people ) software already installed.

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The little 14-inch Chromebook runs Google's eponymous OS with an Intel Celeron 847 CPU clocked at 1.1GHz, an Intel HD GPU, 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM (expandable up to 4GB), and 16GB of SSD storage space, put to use on the 14-inch HD BrightView LED-backlit display (1366 x 768 resolution).

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Intel brought out the Celeron chip, a cheap product that was ideal for the new low-end PCs, and within a year it had captured thirty-five per cent of the market.

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