>- On April 1, 2 days ago, your shiny new Pentium MMX laptop was rendered
>obsolete.  The Mobile Pentium II (Deschutes class) was released.  How fi
>tting that an entire class of expensive laptops be made obsolete on April
>Fool's day.

I wouldn't get rid of that laptop just yet.... check out this Ruerter's
article

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/11344.html

The following is the first paragraph....

  Intel's got a little PR mess to clean up this morning after
  PC World reported that its new chip, Celeron, is not as
  fast running applications as its competitors' clones.

As for me I'll stick with my PowerBook. If nothing else changing my
network settings on the fly sure is nice.