At 12:06 PM 8/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
Samartha wrote:
I personally would stay away from a system like that as well as other Intel marketing gimmicks like Celeron.
Celeron is not a marketing gimmick. It is a good cpu for someone who wants maximum gaming performance for minimum dollar.
Halleluya! ;-) In my opinion, the creation of the Celeron name, image and CPU is a stategic marketing move to cover a segment of the market which was left to competitiors like AMD, Cyrix and other's. see: <A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/top400/article/0,1361,7887+4+0,00.html"><A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/top400/article/0,1361,7887+4+0,00.html</A">http://www.pcworld.com/top400/article/0,1361,7887+4+0,00.html</A</A>> now you don't need to buy a socket 7 AMD or Cyrix to get a good price for performance, you can stay with Slot 1 and buy Celeron! I am pretty sure that the name Celeron is hyped by Intel's marketing muscle in many medias to flash the image of "Good performance, low price, Intel" in as many brains as possible to make as may bucks as possible so that the stock price and profit goes up and everyone get bonuses and nobody gets fired for happening otherwise ;-)
It's also a good cpu for overclocking. Just because you or I don't want a watered down intel doesn't mean that it isn't a good cpu for some user out there that doesn't need to run cad and doesn't have a lot of money to spend.
and with reason, so it seems..... really? I think the Celeron is a gimmick - reminds me of celery which should not be in my computer at all - actually, nobody should have celery in their computer because it would severely degrade performance. Better eat the celery and stay healthy! Samartha - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e