[geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!
Phil Stracchino
alaric at metrocast.net
Fri Jan 11 10:05:08 CST 2008
Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:02:31AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Why not just use a fully-functional processor in the first place....?
>> This is sort of like a supercharged all-wheel-drive Yugo.
>
> The 512K-cache Celerons are most likely the 1M non-Celerons where half the
> cache failed QA.
>
> So, turn defective products into lesser-performing profit.
Far from the first time anyone's done *that*. Even Intel for that
matter. (486SX, anyone?) Or Seagate ... test a drive as RLL, if it
passes sell it as RLL, if not retest it as MFM.
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