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To: Dave Parr who wrote (5983)	5/5/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Dave, From the consumers perspective maybe a good comparison would be the 486SX and the 486DX. Did this hurt consumers perception of Intel? Without the FPU, the performance of 486SX is not degraded from the same core speed of 486DX. Very few applications use FPU anyway. A better comparison of Celeron vs PII is 386SX vs 386DX. With 16-bit data bus, the performance degrade from 386DX to 386SX is terrible just the same way as the change from PII to the cacheless Celeron. The existence of Celeron just proved to the world the incompetence of Intel engineers who are uncapable to modify the stolen technology from Alpha.

To: Dave Parr who wrote (5983)	5/5/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

<<DragonBoy, RE:What's wrong with building a high class Lexus and a cheap Toyata Tercel?>> This is a very poor comparison. Lexus is a different class from Toyota. Lexus is built with a higher grade of materials and extra touch of latest technology. You can feel the difference after sitting inside a Toyota Tercel and a LS400. Celeron and PII on the otherhand is the same piece of silicon with same circuitry. The only difference is the final packaging. The PII has the SRAM and the nice cover with the hologram picture. Had the circuitry of Celeron be different from PII then it would be hard to compare. What the Celeron did was exposing the weakness of the PII engine. So a better analogy is PII------ Original Lexus LS400 Celeron-- Lexus LS400 with a Yugo engine Do you know what happen when you put a Yugo engine into the Lexus LS400? You kill the brand name! Maxwell