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August 3, 1999
Web posted at: 11:37 a.m. EDT (1537 GMT)

by PC World Staff

(IDG) -- PC chips just keep getting faster, and the release of systems to show them off is accelerating as well.

Midwest Micro and Dell are releasing budget Intel Celeron-500 systems this week, and PC World's PC WorldBench results attest to their speed.

The two systems consistently beat out PCs containing their sibling chip, the Celeron-433, but AMD's KIII-450 comes close to the new Celerons in PC WorldBench races.

Midwest Micro's 500-MHz Celeron-powered MWO-500C earned a PC WorldBench score of 204, while the Dell unit posted a 214. A similarly configured Polywell Poly K6-III earned a 217 WorldBench score, not a significant lead. A similarly configured Celeron-433 Gateway E1200 posted a 199.

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Midwest Micro's MWO-500C, priced at $1249, is available now. It comes with 64MB of memory, a 15GB hard drive, and a 17-inch monitor. The machine comes with a 17X-to-40X CD-ROM drive, modem, Fast Ethernet card, Altec Lansing ACS-33W speakers, and Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 128 Wavetable sound card. Windows 98 Second Edition and Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition are preinstalled.

Dell's Celeron-500 is the $1391 Dimension L500C. It has an integrated Intel 810 chip set, as well as 64MB of memory, a 13GB hard drive, and 40X CD-ROM drive. It comes with a 17-inch monitor, Direct AGP video adapter with 4MB of video memory, Creative ES 1373 integrated sound board, Harman/Kardon HK 195 speakers, a modem, and a network interface card. Windows 98 Second Edition and Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition are preinstalled.