I thought I purchased a Celeron 2.0Ghz, but my FreeBSD box says:

rykorp# grep -i cpu /var/run/dmesg.boot
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (3192.02-MHz 686-class CPU) Logical CPUs per core: 2
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs

Did I just win the nerd lottery, or is this the result of some stupid marketing scheme where Celeron info is returned as Pentium?

Posted by roy on August 11, 2007 at 12:38 AM in Ramblings | 4 Comments

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Comment posted on August 13th, 2007 at 12:42 PM
have you called dell?
Comment posted on August 11th, 2007 at 07:11 PM
Aren't most Celerons nothing more than stripped down Pentiums? Or does FreeBSD usually indicate when you have a Pentium that is a Celeron?
Comment posted on August 12th, 2007 at 05:41 PM
that's what i'm curious about :)
Comment posted on August 11th, 2007 at 12:12 PM
I think you won the nerd lottery, but check cpuinfo just to be sure:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
Comment posted on August 11th, 2007 at 03:17 PM
freebsd doesn't have /proc/cpuinfo ... that's where i checked first :(