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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (43441)	12/15/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: Scot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572777

Kevin and thread: From <www.sharkyextreme.com> in their weekly roundup of mail-order cpu prices: <Why isn't the Celeron 300 A selling at the brisk pace it deserves to? All three vendors answered with the same response: AMD. It seems that the K6-2 line is still the first choice of low volume system integrators building PCs designed for the sub-$1,000 market. According to the vendors, they're currently selling the AMD K6-2 300 CPU at a rate that's four times greater than the Intel Celeron 300 A. Sharky Extreme's staff is united in believing that Intel should have dropped the poor-performance evoking "Celeron" name when the speedy A-class models debuted. Too many integrators and customers alike remember the horrendous reviews written by PC Magazine when the Celeron 266 was released without any L2 cache onboard. The Celeron name has been tarnished ever since…> sharkyextreme.com -Scot