
Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/3073
I saw this story about cheap x86 Sun machines being sold at Walmart over at THG. Here's what caught my eye:
The entry level machine houses a 1.6 GHz AMD Duron processor, a 40 GByte harddrive, 128 Mbyte RAM, an Ethernet card as well as a CD-Drive. Floppy and monitor go extra. Trade up to a $400 system and you'll get the floppy and a Celeron 2.6 GHz processor.
It seems that nothing has changed since our article on this. Sigh.
I'm afraid that the Celeron will be even worse of a performer when it gets the Prescott core, as the small amount of cache it will be outfitted with won't be enough to keep that long pipe filled. The current Celeron already suffers a significant amount because of being cache starved, I'm scared to think of what the 90nm Celerons will be like.