[geeks] Dual-core Celerons? For Schizzle!

[Phil Stracchino]

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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