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To: Scumbria who wrote (50613)	2/23/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1576160

<Celeron is awesome. Why would anyone buy a PII?> Minor reasons. Having a larger cache does mean that computing-intensive and memory-intensive tasks are handled better on a Pentium II than on a Celeron. I would guess that the Highend Winstone 99 scores better on a Pentium II than on a Celeron. Plus the Pentium II can do multiprocessing. Yeah, so can Celeron if you hack it, but the smaller cache does mean more activity on the processor bus, which means that a second Celeron just doesn't scale as well as a second Pentium II. Finally, thanks to the Pentium III (or Pentium \|\|\| if you want to imitate Intel marketing), and thanks to the K6-III, the Pentium II's prices are sure to drop. Sure, right now the Pentium II still commands a big price premium over the Celeron, but that's bound to change over the course of this year. Tenchusatsu