What is your favorite retired processor?

there has been so much talk about the athlon, the pentium 4, and the G4, but what is your favorite retired processor?

since the pentium 3 and the G3 are still used, don't count them in since sub-notebooks on the pc side sometimes use the pentium 3 and the ibook and crt imac still use a version of the G3

for old pc processors, my old 366 mhz amd k6-2 processor in my laptop has worked well for short stints on the machine...but anything over an hour, then the thing slows down and i found out that was due to heat...the k6-2 mobile version has that problem which was fixed with the k6-2+ and later the duron

i have had hit or miss experiences on pentium 1s but much of that is due to windows 95

but strange as it may seem, my friend's 3 1/2 year old e-machines pc has been very reiable for that period of time and it has a 366 mhz cyrix M-2 processor in it

my former boss has a machine that was a server but now is a personal machine and that also uses the cyrix M-2 and no problems there

for the 2 1/2 years i had my old power tower pro, i liked the 185 mhz motorola 604e processor that ran that thing...no problems

so for "retired" processors, my vote goes to the motorola 604e and the cyrix M-2

i used to be so down on celerons until i saw some benchmarks on some pc magazines and i realized for the simpler stuff i usually do on computers, the celeron was more than enough

now with 1.7 ghz desktop celeron machines at the store with flat panel monitor for well under a grand, i don't have the need for a pentium 4, really

but the pentium 4 is not that much more in a desktop unit price wise

at some point, i could see intel dropping the celeron altogether because the pentium 4s will fall so low in price for the slightly behind the curve speeds

when the mobile duron came out, i saw it on a lot of laptops but since the athlon 4/athlon 4 xp chips have become cheaper, i saw the mobile duron almost disappear

same goes with the mobile celeron chips being phased out of the low end intel powered machines which are now the slower end of the current pentium 4s