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To: Elmer who wrote (6025)5/7/1998 12:16:00 PM
From: Ed Sammons  Read Replies (2) of 6843
 
RE: <Thanks for more proof Ed. Again, you too were unable to find a
benchmark backing up Brian's claim.>

Elmer,

Again:

Graph showing Celeron266 Win95 Bus. Winstone performance is 91%
of PMMX233 (e.g. ~= PMMX200).
zdnet.de

"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."
pcworld.com

The first link from Ziff-Davis publications is a Windows95 (which almost all Celeron systems will run) benchmark showing that the composite performance of 10-12 of the most popular business applications, not synthetic benchmarks tweaked to make a certain processor look artificially good. In other words, it matches much better than a synthetic benchmark, the performance the typical user will experience.

The second link from PC World Mag is an observation that the Celeron266 was no faster than the PMMX200. The benchmarks or observations they used were not elaborated. Do you think a user who buys a system will say "Gee my Celeron266 system is 9% slower than a PMMX233."? No, he/she will say "This thing is no faster than the PMMX200 that I have at the office."

What you have are links from Ziff-Davis, the most prolific publisher of PC rags and originator of numerous benchmarks, saying that the Celeron is about a PMMX200, and an observation from PC World Magazine that the Celeron266 system could barely keep up with a PMMX200 system.

If you think your powers of elucidation are so great as to reinterpret their written words, so be it. However, there is no man so blind as one who refuses to see.
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