The tired old Celeron, complacent old intel.

[Rigoletto]

The celeron is deliberately crippled and as the clock speeds are pushed up, against the Duron the celeron is suffering. A celeron overclocked on 100MHz FSB to 900 will benchmark like a Duron 650.
The longer Intel insists on selling the celeron for more than VERY cheap, the bigger AMD is going to get. Intel's brand name counts for little loyalty now we have such a choice. Intel is just SOOO complacent. The days of disabling parts of their chips to sell cheaper are gone.
When P4 comes out at turn of the year, they might as well drop the celeron completely and slash the PIII prices. The celeron will soon deserve to command a price no higher than Cyrix chips- I don't think Intel like that kind of margin.
This processor war just keeps on getting better and better for the consumer.

 

[Whitedog]

The first of the year, Celeron is going 100MHz bus. Big deal I say. Althought it will make it where they can run at 133mhz bus now (overclocked of course). Celeron 750 would run at 1000 mhz.. not bad I guess.

I agree they should just drop them altogether. I mean, they are nothing more than Crippled Coppermines. Why not just sell the Coppermines for a price that's between what they are now, and the Celerons...
Let the PIII be the low end chip with the P4 coming out.
I can see Intel now, selling P4's running at 66mhz bus.. (Our new Value processor) LOL :|

 

[Rigoletto]

Whitedog, write a hundred times "I must not think so reasonable!"

Now... much more Intel would be to fling out the L2 cache, disable the FPU... but I like your idea about the 66 bus...