From: Douglas Hirsch, Maximum Upgrades (djhirsch_at_maxup.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 13:27:19 EDT
Keith,
If you'd like the TP701C running at 133MHz with the write-back cache feature
enabled, let me know. Maximum Upgrades offers that CPU upgrade for $298 US.
Norton SI benchmarks show a CPU speed increase from 95.4 to 287.9. I don't
think Leonard offers anything that fast.
Best wishes,
Douglas Hirsch
Internet Support
Maximum Upgrades
tel (916) 361-2870 P.O. Box 276945
fax (916) 361-2880 Sacramento, CA 95827
http://www.maxup.com
djhirsch_at_maxup.com "Software Bloat Solutions" (c)
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Wong <pirate_at_lava.net>
To: THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU <THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 1:51 AM
Subject: Thinkpad 701c upgrades
>
>--Hello, I've just purchased a used 701c "butterfly" Thinkpad. I was
>wondering if anyone had upgraded their processor from
>"www.portables.com"? They offer a AMD 5x86 upgrade that would bring the
>little butterfly up to the speed of a pentium 75mhz processor. This
>company seems to be really professional and knowledgeable, but I would
>just like some customer comments. If any of you have done this upgrade
>on the butterfly, could you tell me how the machine is? Is it worth the
>upgrade? Does all modern software work on the machine after the
>software? Is it reliable? Any heat problems? Do demanding
>applications (office97, winfax, netscape) crash more or less than
>before?
> I realize this machine is outdated, and expensive to get up to
>useable speeds, but I like the novelty of it, and the fact that it was
>one of the few laptops to win an "engineering?" award. I mean sure a
>Lotus with a V-8 has over 300ponies, but the old one with only 4
>cylinders and it's soft "whirrrrr" is much more novel. Anyhow, this is
>Keith from Honolulu, Hawaii saying greetings to everyone on the list.
>Thanks in advance for your responses.
>
> --Keith
>
>
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