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

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

Gregson Helledy wrote:

> > 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Greg
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Thanks for the link. I despise mediocrity, so I was thrilled to know 
that my Celeron 2.0 turned in unquestionably the worst performance of 
the lot. :-)

The author compared it to a Pentium III 1G. My last home machine was a 
PII 200M, and in the office a PIII 800M, so I wasn't disappointed. It 
feels just like the office machine. Hey, I got the box for  $220.00, and 
I forgot to mention that it comes in a real metal case. And Microcenter 
threw in a power cord and drive cables too!



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