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<<though I'm now running an AMD Celeron I think.>>
No such microprocessor exists. AMD currently makes the Athlon and the Duron chips, Intel manufactures the Pentiun IV and the Celeron.
More on topic for this thread, a K6-2 at 500MHz or more should run Autocad acceptably provided you have at least 128 MB of RAM. If you were to buy a new computer, I would reccommend one based on the Athlon, it is currently the best decision from a price/performance standpoint. The Athlon will not be noticibly slower than a Pentium IV, and it will be significantly less expensive. The Athlon also uses less expensive RAM, though the performance of the Athlon's RAM is equal to the performance of Intel's RDRAM in every real world situation. The less expensive RAM used by Athlons will be nice if you decide to upgrade. Really, there is no significant performance difference between the Athlon and the Pentium IV in real world performance.
Aaron
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