Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a comparison review between the AMD Duron 1.3GHz and the Intel Celeron 1.3GHz CPUs

Typically, the cheap PC systems that are often sold by the big retail chains are equipped with an AMD Duron or Intel Celeron. Here, the price range of these cheapies starts with $425, but the spartan configuration of such PC systems is striking: usually, the PC contains integrated graphics, a very small hard drive (e.g. 20 GB) and 128 MB SDRAM. If you want to upgrade the system later to keep up with the current standards, you are out of luck, as this is not possible. From an economic standpoint, for the end user the investment has gone to waste. So it is no wonder that in 2001, AMD was able to sell more Athlon processors than Durons.

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