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To: heatsinker2 who wrote (53421)	8/31/2001 3:26:32 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Heatsinker, Re: "Because it runs at 1+ Ghz, which is an important number (more important than 2 Ghz). Because it's cheap. Because a 1 Ghz Celery box is plenty fast enough for what most people do. Why bother with a P4?" A business is more likely to defer a purchase than to spend the money to go half-assed. A 1GHz Celeron won't give them the performance increase, or the stable platform to satisfy their requirements. By stable platform, I mean having core componentry that remains constant over a long period of time. The new socket gives the Pentium 4 much more headroom for the future. The Cereron makes sense only as a low cost consumer product, or for a nominal engine in one of those low power blade servers, not something that corporate businesses would be interested in. I'm sure Intel is already leading the transition from Pentium III to Pentium 4, and with current pricing, it makes little sense for a business not to go all the way. wanna_bmw