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To: Senator949 who wrote (31432)	8/22/1998 2:34:00 AM
From: FR1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Whooppee!!! What do you get with Celeron besides the Intel name? You get a jump in stock price from lots of sales spurred by new offerings in the low unit price boxes. I agree with you that Celeron is a dog. I remember some tech running it down for me and I remember even Intel advertising it as a chip for "entry level machines". That's what we are selling on the low end this fall - dogs called iMAC and Celeron. How are they gonna sell millions? Spend money. Money doesn't talk - it screams. Tonight I saw the beginning of the $100 million dollar iMAC ad campaign (great ad!). I saw CPQ ads too (teamed up with Radio Shack to increase their ad budget). The fall war is on.

To: Senator949 who wrote (31432)	8/22/1998 9:03:00 AM
From: divvie	Respond to of 97611

K6 Vs. Celeron With a PII core you get a far superior FPU (Floating Point Unit) . Much better for grpahics and math. Ziff Davis tests have shown that, without any L2 cache whatsoever the initial Celerons were little better than a 233 PII. However, these tests primarily test the suitability to MS Office types of pgms. E.g. Excel which pages in and out of main and L2 memory all the time. 256k of L2 is the minimum required according to the same tests but SRAM is expensive so INTC are making do with 128k. Not good. BUT, you do get a very cheap PII class FPU, which, without the L2 cache (266) is very easy to overclock to up to 400MHz with no ill effects. So you get the cheapest but best 3D CPU out there until K6 with 3DNow.