My first thought was back to the Celeron 300A CPU [1]. I had heard at the time that Intel had packaged Pentium 2 - 450s as Celeron 300As because they had too m

My first thought was back to the Celeron 300A CPU [1]. I had heard at the time that Intel had packaged Pentium 2 - 450s as Celeron 300As because they had too many but were not meeting the demand for the Celeron. It was cheaper to repackage already fabricated 450s than increase the 300A line throughput for an unknown demand curve. The Wikipedia article says it was more of an efficiency improvement with the new Mendocino core with on board L2-cache. They really did mean for it to be a 300Mhz processor but it would easily run at 450. Ah the days when if you got a fun product upgrade it couldn't be retracted years later... Further, amazing that whomever made the decision to lock it down didn't consider the blow back versus the good will that was already established. ROI & Risk vs Reward... never forget them. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron