Re: old thinkpad horsepower increase

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From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 19:44:21 EDT


> Windoze seemed a little bit snappier, and may actually be, 133MHz versus
> 33MHz, but it's definitely not four times faster.

Yes, well, it is only 133Mhz internally, the bus is still 66Mhz.
Overclocking a whole system (AFAIK not possible on these laptops) often does
produce a linear increase in whole system speed.

> Thanks for the pointer to your page.

I really should have taken it down years ago, but it remains one of the most
popular pages (among 1800 hosted at my department). I was recently told
that if you search on "laptop CPU" at google.com it is the first page
returned!

- David R.


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