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To: Paul Engel who wrote (51994)4/3/1998 2:37:00 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
RE: Celeron and It will be the Price/Performance Leader - read that again - Price/Performance Leader!

But it's more expensive than a 233MHz K6 or P55C and it offers LESS performance in a system of equal price!!! That's NOT a leadership position.

PC World obtained a preproduction PC built around a 266-MHz Celeron with 64MB of system memory and an 8MB video card; it's expected to sell for under $1000. We measured it against a range of systems--some with less main memory--and found that the Celeron's performance on business applications didn't match the promise of its high clock speed. (The system's manufacturer asked to remain anonymous.)

Celeron Tanks in Testing

The Celeron system earned a PC WorldBench 98 score of only 106, compared to the 126 posted by a similarly configured PC using a 233-MHz K6 chip from AMD, which is widely available in $999 systems. The Celeron system's performance on business applications was worse than that of low-price Cyrix-based systems and systems running on the chip the Celeron is meant to supplant--Intel's Pentium MMX-233, which can be found in PCs costing about $1100. In fact, the Celeron could barely keep pace with PCs running on Intel's PMMX-200, which is used in systems that cost as little as $799.
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