[geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
>Date: 2008/01/11 Fri AM 07:35:23 CST
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: [geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!

>Yes, it is true, in their on-going effort to address the self-imposed limitations of the Celeron CPUs, the latest Celeron CPU (to be announced/released next week) is a dual dore Celeron:
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>1.6 GHz clock speed
>800 MHz FSB
>512K Cache
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>More info here:
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>http://www.intel.com/products/processor/Celerondualcore/index.htm
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>Looks like it will be about $65-70, baed on this site:
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>http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0280010
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>Could be interesting...

Forgot to include comparison link to E2140 CPU (*nearly* the same, but with 1 Meg Cache for $3 more at this retailer):

http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0266759

5% more expensive for double the cache? Seems like an easy to justify upgrade to me...