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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (66293)	10/12/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, re:<C'mon. Live a little. Be optimistic. Have some fun.> Now if the Xeon were faster than the PII. ;-) But anyway, I drive a Beemer 740, too cheap to buy the Mercedes.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (66293)	10/12/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 186894

Mary, from Tom's hardware. What shall we expect from a Pentium II Xeon? Will it blow away all that we knew so far? The answer is yes and no. In the first place it's got to be a 'no', since the Pentium II Xeon won't blow away the Pentium II at all on the usual platforms where the Pentium II is used so far. The CPU core of the Xeon is identical to the core of the Pentium II as well as the Celeron, so the difference is only produced by the different L2 cache. In single processing and single threaded applications the performance gain of a full speed L2 cache over the half speed L2 cache of the Pentium II is minimal. Thus we will hardly see any difference in ANY application under Windows 95 or Windows 98.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (66293)	10/13/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Paul Merriwether	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<< My point is - these cars offer more speed than necessary for most drivers - but they sell. >> Most home users (imo) are not being limited by the CPU performance. They are being limited by communication performance(in general). Faster CPUs in a non compute bound environment wont feel any better. Unlike fast cars, which are fun and babe magnets(just kidding :-) ) even when driven in a rush hour on 405! (actually especially so!) Hey, your knowledge of fast cars is impressive!