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To: DRBES who wrote (49098)	2/9/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1571813

<The current version of the cELERON is within 87% to 92% (depending on which set of benchmarks are used) of the performance of the pII. Yet it is priced at a fraction of pII pricing. It also costs more to produce than the pII.> First of all, if I'm looking at cars and I pay four times the price of a Ford Taurus in order to get a BMW 700-series, should I expect four times the performance or four times the satisfaction? Second, where in the world do you get the notion that the Celeron costs more to produce than the Pentium II? Sure, the Celeron's die size is larger, but it doesn't have the SRAM chips nor the Nintendo cartridge of the Pentium II. The new Socket 370 Celeron doesn't even have a daughtercard anymore, and that is estimated to shave $10 more dollars from the cost compared to the Slot 1 Celeron. If you think that die size is the only factor in cost, you make the same mistake that too many other AMD supporters make. And third, you are assuming that if AMD loses money on the K6-2, Intel must be losing money on the Celeron. Try, try again. Tenchusatsu

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