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

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:23, Douglas Lentz wrote:
> turgon@mike-leone.com wrote:
> 
> >>Mike Leone wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >And then you snipped out all my message! :-)
> >  
> >
> >>I picked up a Microcenter bare-bones box last October.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Called them today. They say those are refurbished PCs, usually P3s. I may
> >do Walmart anyway.
> >
> >
> Sorry about the snipping! I guess I was just feeling ruthless that 
> day... :-)

No problem - just teasing.

> 
> 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?

i686 is PII and above, I think. The difference is lack of cache, I
believe. It's more the "refurbished" part, than the speed. Even the
Walmart ones are AMD Duron, which is roughly equivalent to a Celeron.

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