[PLUG] Tis the season for computer buying?

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

>- 2.4GHz Intel Celery

The high-speed Celeron chips (high-speed meaning anything recent,
probably more than about 1 GHz) are real underperformers.  There was
an article on one of the big hardware-testing sites several months ago
about this.  The basic conclusion was that all the extra clock
cycles on a Celeron provide little additional processing power.

Using their various benchmark programs, they concluded that for the
best performance-per-dollar, you're much better off with a Pentium 4
(if you're willing to spend a bit more) or the AMD Duron (now Sempron?)
if price is the key factor.

I don't know what Dell offers or where their current prices are on 
machines with these CPUs.

Greg Helledy

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