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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63338)	8/25/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Re: Now tell me Gary, what will your next Intel computer be ? If I can get a 'fire sales' Celeron 266/300 at say 500 - 600 that would be the next. This is for my nephew. I believe I can upgrade that to a faster Celeron in 12 months time. I also need a WEB server, which must be a brand name one may be Dell, HP depending on what deal I can have and I may opt for PII 450 or Xeon, hasn't made up my mind yet. I also want to buy a 'sub-notebook' which I am looking at the Sharp Mobius. For my current PII300 DIY machine at home, I have to wait for another 12 months at least to upgrade. This is the worst decision I have made, being on this and the AMD thread for too long, I have unconciously picked up the 'who need that speed anyway' line :-) >Which is it Gary? The Celeron A or the Pentium II? <G> Let's have the name right. There is only Celeron, no Celeron A. Does that answer your question ? BTW, have you made up your mind whether to buy iMAC ? Gary

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63338)	8/25/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: greg s	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, I think you're missing a key point. Intel has a long history of "eating their young": 386 displaced by 486 displaced by Pentium displaced by PentiumII, displaced by Xeon, displaced by ........ ad infinitum. This is just a ramification of the product segmentation underway for some time now. I don't expect to change your mind on this ... Greg.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (63338)	8/26/1998 4:00:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

Now tell me Gary, what will your next Intel computer be? A Celeron A on a nice Abit BH6 motherboard with PC100 RAM running at 450Mhz or a Pentium II 450 on the same set up for $500 more and running SLOWER? Do you mean a Celeron-A 300 overclocked to run at a potentially-unstable 450 MHz or a Pentium-II 450 running at the speed at which it was tested and qualified? A heat-seeking overclocker would probably buy a P-II 400 or 450 and overclock that. A person who's computer has the cover permanently removed so he can work on it faster might overclock the C-A 300 to 450 if he wanted to save money (I might fall into this camp). The average Joe who pays to have new memory installed will buy the P-II 450 and run it as speced. (If you're going to overclock these things then buy a big-ass CPU fan.)