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Subject: Re: Celeron 300A vs. PII 450

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 04:11:55 11/08/98

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On November 08, 1998 at 05:41:55, greg moller wrote:

>perhaps I should ask here -- I've recently read a few 'qualified' opinions on
>the net, which almost unanimously panned the celeron chip, and highly
>recommended the PII instead, while here no one has said a bad word about the
>celeron-- so what gives ? is the celeron really that lousy ??
>
>regards, greg

IMO, the original Celeron was a cludge, a stripped PII, not very interesting.

The *new* Celeron 300A and 333, on the other hand, is very much faster and gives
you an excellent price/performance ratio. The 333 gives you a performace
somewhere between an old PII/266 and a PII/300. At around $200, that is not bad
at all!

Of course a PII/450 is 50-100% faster, but will cost you something like
$600-700.




Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com



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