Q&A
Celeron chip a slower cousin

By Kim Komando

Q. Is Intel's Celeron chip as fast as a Pentium 4?

A. The Celeron is Intel's budget chip. It is a geared-down Pentium 4. Intel's fastest Pentium 4 today runs at 3.6 gigahertz. The top Celeron clips along at 2.8 GHz. There are other differences, too. The top Pentium 4 has 1 megabyte of Level 2 cache memory that boosts the processor's performance. Cache is superfast memory that stores common commands so the processor doesn't have to fetch them from slower system memory. A Celeron processor only has 128 kilobytes of L2 cache. Overall, the Celeron is slower, but you probably won't notice that if you're surfing the Web or checking e-mail. You will notice a difference in more processor-intensive tasks such as ripping CDs, where the computer encodes tunes from audio discs in a digital format such as MP3.

Q. Is there a way to highlight and print sections of a document that are not consecutive? For instance, if I highlight the first paragraph, but want to omit the second paragraph and then highlight the third, I lose the highlighting on the first paragraph.

A. Windows has an easy way of doing this. Select the first paragraph. Then hold down the Ctrl key and select the third paragraph. That will leave both paragraphs highlighted. Continue on, highlighting just the paragraphs you need. You can use the same procedure to highlight individual words or phrases. When you print, you must tell the printer to grab only the highlighted portions. Click File, Print. Click Selection. Then click OK.