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To: Dom B. who wrote (51638)	3/31/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Sales of Celeron will be an interesting test of the Intel Inside strategy. So far that has been a great success. Intel is probably speeding up plans to add a version with an L2 cache. Burt

To: Dom B. who wrote (51638)	3/31/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Dom - re: "OTOH, they may not like the Celeron preview..." Go back one year. Tom Pabst (the Uberclockermeister) panned the original Klamath - Pentium II - based on an illegally obtained pre-production unit - then had to recant his story after the REAL production Pentium II was released. The complete PC World article mentioned specifically that no multimedia tests were run on their pre-production Celeron machine - and that such tests would PROBABLY indicate that the Celeron performed as good or better than the competitive K6 devices. I tend to think such tests were performed but the results would no be as provocative as the headlines they could milk with an overall Celeron Bash. Bear in mind - if the Celeron does have any speed related issues - all Intel has to do is sell them for $99, $89 or less and the PRICE/PERFORMANCE rating that our AMD friends love to tout - will fall directly in the favor of the Celeron - and cause a major shift away from the OVERPRICED K6's that AMD is selling to GOUGE the average consumer! Paul