Re: [PLUG] Anybody ever buy one of those Walmart PCs?

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

turgon@mike-leone.com wrote:

> > Mike Leone wrote:
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> And then you snipped out all my message! :-)
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> > I picked up a Microcenter bare-bones box last October.
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> Called them today. They say those are refurbished PCs, usually P3s. I may
> do Walmart anyway.
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Sorry about the snipping! I guess I was just feeling ruthless that 
day... :-)

Uh...well, when I installed RH something told me that the box was an 
i686. Is that a P4? Or is there no relationship? Also, why are Celerons 
the poor relations of the Intel family? Is it the cache, or lack thereof?

Thanks, anybody.


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