PCs based on the Pentium II are typically two or more years old, but will be fine for general office applications. There are also the Pentium Xeon and the Pentium Titanium, which are designed for servers rather than desktop PCs. This chip ranges in speed from 500 to 733 MHz . Celeron chips are designed with less performance level than the Pentium chips so the computers that contain them are aimed more at the home and college dorm environment rather than the business environment. But a computer with a Celeron chip would also be perfectly suitable for any employee who only uses a computer for light office tasks such as scheduling and data entry.
Businesses can also choose from a number of non-Intel processors.
Competing against Intel's fastest Pentium III is AMD Corp.'s Athlon processor. AMD also makes a process called the K6-2, which is roughly equivalent to a Pentium III running at the same clock speed. Another alternative is VIA Cyrix M2 processor and VIA Cyrix III processor from Via Technologies Inc., which compare quite favorably to the Celeron at similar clock speeds. For buyers interested in Apple computers, they use chips that are exclusively available to its Macintosh computers. The Power Mac G4, ideal for any business user, comes with a processor known as the G4.