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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (49767)	2/16/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573213

<Second, send us some money, because if you're even thinking about buying a PIII right now after reading this, you have gotta be freaking loaded.> That's a pretty ignorant statement, considering that some people really do need a Pentium III. I just built a Celeron 300A system for a friend who is doing 3D modeling on NT. (The Celeron failed to overclock.) I told him that once the Pentium III is released, he should buy it. Of course, I also told him that if he can wait, he should until the software that he is using is updated to support the Pentium III. But I have a feeling that he can't wait. So why did I build him a Celeron system in the first place? He needed a new computer ASAP, and if he's going to throw away his current CPU for a Pentium III, it might as well be the cheapest one available in the Slot 1 form factor. The system has PC100 SDRAM (256MB of it!), a 100 MHz BX motherboard, and the latest BIOS which includes support for the Pentium III. This makes his eventual migration to Pentium III pretty much a plug-n-play deal. Tenchusatsu