the celeron performance is preaty close to the PII's. my celeron 433 out
performs my brothers 400 in all aplications. so my advice for you is to
stick with a celeron and use the extra money for something else like 64mb
ram.

the reason for the celeron's low price is to drive AMD out of buisness.
they want to have a bigger portion of the low cost computer market. it has
nothing to do with prduction cost or anything like that.


sami


> Hello ladies and gents,
>
> I was just searching the dell web page and I noticed "at least" in the
> notebooks,  that a pentium 2 333 is one hundred dollars more then a celeron
> 400 mhz.  Could anyone tell me what is so bad about the celeron chip.  And
> why the p2 is so much more?
>
> One more question I would like to ask is I have a Dell Desktop which is a p2
> 333 and I was wondering about upgrading it.  Can i put a P3 say 600 or
> whatever p3 chip into a p2 chipset or do I have to replace the mother board.
> I also heard about 100 mhz bus and I believe that came out before I
> purchased my computer and I was wondering if first of all I can change or
> replace that and second of all is it worth it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Robert Racki Jr.
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