From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Wed Oct 01 1997 - 15:38:24 EDT
On Wed, 01 Oct 1997 13:28:09 -0400, Robert Munzenrider wrote:
>John Kim has an excellent commentary about the virtures & lacks thereof of
>the TP701. I'll agree with all of 'em based on my 2-yr+ experience with
>one. Withall, I like my 701. It is cute <G>. BUT....
> One thing I would add. Background: My 701 is 486/75, 24 megs of ram, TFT
>screen, 720 megs of hard drive. My addendum: the machine is SLOWWWW when
>running MS Office 97 apps under Win95. There are noticeable lags when
>entering data into Excel spreadsheets, text into Word documents, etc. A
>second or two, seems like, Enough to be noticeable. These apps need a
>pentium processor!
Or Microsloth could also design them better, and make them
run like UNIX, which is probably the only OS I've seen with the least
overhead.
>
>My 701 has been reliable. No failures/problems that have required
>returning machine for repair. But overall, I have to recognize that it's
>a 3-4 year-old design, and the software coming along now is outpacing it.
>Sure wish I could upgrade it with a pentium processor.
>
You actually can upgrade to a 586, a 486 class processor with
faster than Pentium speed, but it voids the warranty. I think that
above all though, RAM would make things smoother.
Just my 2 cents.
Paul
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