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To: maui_dude who wrote (80507)	5/22/2002 8:37:46 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<font color=red>PC World thumbs down on Celeron 1700 - The 128KB L2 cache evidently hindered the speed of the preproduction 1.7-GHz Celeron system tested, an $849 Gateway 300S: It managed a meager score of 83 on PC WorldBench 4 tests. A comparable 1.7-GHz Pentium 4 system--with the same integrated graphics--ran more than 10 percent faster, earning a score of 93... In addition, the 1.7-GHz Celeron system actually performed worse than older Celeron machines that PC World has tested. A comparable 1.3-GHz Celeron Dell system earned a score of 92. A similar 1.2-GHz Celeron PC from Gateway logged a score of 89, and a Hewlett-Packard system scored 90. I guess PC World was too sheepish to compare Intel-based systems to AMD-based systems and admit that even a 1 GHz Duron system like the Polywell 1000DU scored a 93, and the el-cheapo Emachines T1400 XP1600+ scored 89. (picked up from theinquirer.net) pcworld.com Petz