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

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

>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?

An i686 is apparently anything Pentium II or faster.  I compiled
a custom kernel for my Athlon but uname -a still describes it as i686.

This Slashdot article:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/0554230&mode=thread
covers an Anandtech article on Celeron performance.  It compares
the new 2+ GHz Celerons to Duron, AthlonXP and Pentium 4 chips, and
offers explanations as to the differences.  Let's just say that the 
Celeron didn't do that well.

Greg




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