Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw
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Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw
Orginally, the celeron had no l2 cache, but that didn't last long, and any
celeron above 300 Mhz has 128KB of full speed l2 cache. It makes up for
its 4 times smaller cache by being full speed instead of half speed, and
will hang with a PII of the same clock in almost anything, except maybe
audocad. Oh, and they are a lot cheaper.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/weekly_cpu/ has the most recent
prices. $53 for a Celeron 300A(with 128K l2 cache), and $35 for a k6-2
350. Cheapest PII is $153 for the PII-350.
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Cavan Carroll wrote:
>
> >Well, Veteran mac users are complaining that the iMac and new G3s
> >suck because apple decided to use a 7 cent part instead of a 10 cent
> >one to make Windows users switch.
>
> Well, while we're on the subject, the only difference between a PII and a
> Celeron is that the Celeron had the internal cache ripped out and it dropped
> the speed at least 100 Mhz ( until recently ) but only lowered the cost
> couple of bucks!
>
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