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To: Paul Engel who wrote (46677)	1/20/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Very hard to find a Celeron 400 system. First, I went to CompUSA. They had exactly one Celeron 400 SKU on display, one P2-450 and two P2-400's. But the they had FOUR K6-2-400 systems (two each HP and IBM). They also had a K6-2-380 and a K6-2-366. No 366 Celerons. Next I went to Office Depot -- zero Celeron 400's, two K6-2-400's and one Pentium II-400. Most of the rest was 350 MHz or less, mostly AMD or Cyrix. Price Costco also had no Celeron 400's and mostly AMD and Cyrix machines. So the only place with a Celeron 400 had only one SKU. More importantly, even CompUSA doesn't bother advertising their lone Celeron 400. Their circular 10263-1-99 features a Compaq K6-2-350 on the front page and a smaller ad for a NEC P2-400. Inside, there are five more systems advertised, 3 AMD and 2 Intel P2's. Next I looked in the ComputorEdge (free weekly 100+ page computer magazine filled with small to medium computer vendor ads) Of 40 vendors advertising computers, only 4 vendors had the Celeron 400 as an option. I'll take a took in Fry's soon, but they have NEVER advertised a Celeron 400 system. thechipmerchant.com still noes not list the Celeron 400 chip. When did Intel supposedly introduce this thing? Petz