[ale] Speed comparison

[Chris Fowler]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:16, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:05 PM
> Subject: [ale] Speed comparison
> 
> 
> > I'm looking at buying a special system that will only take P4's. I would
> > prefer an AMD.  How does a 2.4GHZ Celeron compare to an XP-2400?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> 
> It does not, the P4s, especially the celerons are dogs.  I have a 1.8 GHz
> celeron and I swear my 800 MHz Athlon runs rings around it.
> I've been underwhelmed by the p4 since there were introduced.  Any processor
> that is slower per clock tick than the previous generation has something
> dreadfully wrong.  If you must do P4, get a real one, not the celeron.
> 

Thanks.  It looks as if I'll be skipping the system due to the Intel
tax.  The XP must be better.

> Calvin