From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Feb 03 1999 - 03:34:31 EST
On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 01:18:54 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
>The 701 butterfly is becoming a classic, a collector machine..
>most likely the very first contemporary classic..
>most already know there is one on display in the museum of modern art in
>NYC..
>while they will run win98 and others say NT4, they are becoming a bit
>slow..
But it does work. But yeah, they are both quite slow.
>the beat up ones are available occasionally for $100 to $300 depending..
>
I got one for about $200 once on eBay, because the guy thought the screen was bad
(when it fact he didn't know how to change the contrast). Look for bargins like that for
those of you who sort of "trust" eBay.
>a really perfect and complete one would be worth about $500 to $700, not
>based upon speed or max memory,
>but based on the small size, simple design and so forth..
>
>I recently had the cpu upgraded in one of my 701C machines so as to see
>if the speed increase was really worth the $$..
>
>i suggest that you watch the misc.portables newsgroup and other thinkpad
>forum for sale ads..
>(beware of EBay since you are ultimately dealing with an unknown seller)
>
>so far the max HDD size the 701 will support is 6.5gigs, and max memory
>is 40megs on the 486/75 machine..
>
I have to admit (my 2 cents' worth) that while my 701 seems to be getting
slower and slower, it's been a good machine for the 2 years, 11 months that I've had it.
It's not a bad machine, but it would have been nicer if they had a Pentium 75 version
of the same machine (and a TFT panel that would at least do 800*600).
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