Re: [Thinkpad] 1.4GHz PIII-m?

Hi Everybody,

> It'll most likely throttle down your chip using speedstep or lock it up to
> deal with the heat dissipation problem that it'll be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
> Seriously, would that 15% or less improvement in speed be worth frequent
> and unpredictable slowdowns and lockups? What are you going to do? Bolt
> on a bigger heat sink and a larger fan? That's just inviting trouble.
>
> Like everyone else in here sez...Faster HDD. More memory. That's more
> likely the way to go.

Ok, I think I have some answers now! Remember this is not me doing this,
I'm quite happy with my 800Mhz T21 :-) I shall let him know he is better
off getting more memory and a bigger faster hard disk, as I shall imagine
the 30gb unit (I think it is, or it may be 20gb) is a 4200rpm device, and
that he should look for a 7200rpm device.

I'm not sure why he is particularly bothered, his T23 was faster than my
T21, but mainly because he has 512MB on Win XP Pro and I have 192MB on Win
XP Pro. (time to get more, shame it's PC100 in my case!).

Many thanks,
Vicky.

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Received on Sun Jan 18 07:12:24 2004