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To: Steve Porter who wrote (50629)	3/16/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve, >>"I read an uncofirmed report from one of the analysts about 1 o 2 weeks ago saying that only 2 companies had signed on for celeron.." Shows to go ya what the analysts know. Received our first Pentium II systems today. The guys are loading software on them right now. Next, they will be benchmarked using our own suite of tests. Then, when Covington comes out, it will be benchmarked also. By the time we really need to switch to Pentium II, Mendocino (has L2 cache put back on it) will probably be out. It is the one that will probably be used. Don't you get it that the Celeron family is just one more way to get people to go Slot 1? Pentium MMX, Pentium II, Deschutes, Merced. No Cyrix, no AMD, no Sh*t. Tony

To: Steve Porter who wrote (50629)	3/17/1998 3:02:00 AM
From: Jeff Fox	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve re: Celeron Interesting to see if this is true. In the mean time pardon me if I chose to NOT pass on this rumor. I can very well make up my own rumors thank you. As for Celeron - It is a part without L2 cache that competes fine against K6 without L2 cache. But why Celeron? A chance to sell PII at basement prices. The Celeron saves bucks by the cost of the cache parts. By architecture the PII requires a different module to change L2 cache size whereas for the the K6 the L2 is a motherboard deletion. You and I might not like it, but there is a market at the low end that just does not understand the role of L2 cache and won't pay for it. With a less than elegant phrasing - Ted Waitt, Gateway 2000 CEO said it, "Megahertz sells - everything else smells". Jeff