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Subject: Re: Where Are The Computer Compamies?
Date: 4 Jun 2025 03:04:31 GMT
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On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:28:49 -0500, chrisv wrote:

> There were a few years where the Celerons were just *killing* the
> Pentium II's and III's in performance/dollar.

Celerys? I always considered them the KMarts of the processor world. I've 
heard good things about the N100 in minis but I went with a more expensive 
Ryzen 7 that's worked out well. 

That was another experiment. The company bought a Mac mini for an aborted 
attempt to build an iPhone product and I was fascinated by the form 
factor. Unboxing it would have made a good youtube video. We all stood 
around trying to figure out what to do with it. I never did anything with 
it and still don't know jack about macOS or whatever it ran but it planted 
the idea.

Come to think of it I wonder where it is? It always ran headless in the 
server room and tended to get lost behind a switch or UPS.