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To: Scumbria who wrote (54241)	4/5/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1573857

Re: "PII offers a 2% performance advantage over Celeron, yet sells at a 200% price premium (450 MHz PII sells for $450.) The only difference between PII and Celeron is that PII offers a larger (and slower) L2 cache." The only OTHER difference is the branding, which has been inexplicably successful for Intel. It's not the 2% performance edge which earns the PII a premium over the Celeron, but rather the branding (and the stupidity of customers). Therefore I submit that if some chipset manufacturer decided to add some cache and sell an "Enhanced Celeron" it wouldn't get those PII premiums--after all, it would still be a Celeron. Kevin