From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 21:20:41 EDT
Doug has been doing this sort of upgrade for years..
another honest guy..
Douglas Hirsch, Maximum Upgrades wrote:
> 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 I realize this machine is outdated, and expensive to get up to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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