From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sat Jan 03 1998 - 22:56:27 EST
>>All these numbers are too technical for me. My question is: Is it worth
>>the money for the upgrade?
>
> Well, this is difficult for me to answer. I had wanted to just let the
>numbers speak for themselves and not render an opinion, but if forced, I'll
>editorialize a bit.
>
> In a nutshell, I don't think so--at least for me.
>
> I had a 486-75 MHz, so this upgrade boosted it to something about the same
>as a 486-100 MHz. Overall speed increase in typical applications...I'd say
>about 20%.
>
> For me, that's just not significant enough. For me, I require at *least*
>a 75% speed increase--preferably a 100% increase (at or near doubling)
>before I think its worth considering an upgrade. For me, in laptops I went
>from a Sharp 386SX-20, to a ThinkPad 750 (486SL-33), to a TP 701
>(486-75--but I have to say that the smaller form factor of the 701 made the
>less-than-stellar performance increase less of an important factor), to
>finally a TP 560 (Pentium 120). In every case, that was a speed increase
>of about 2x or better (a little less in the case of the 701 acquisition
>over the 750). That's just something I require before I spend money on a
>new machine.
>
Wouldn't the operating system also make a marginal difference?
> Now an upgrade may be something different for you than it is for me. I
>always very much liked the 701--so much so that I rather missed it when I
>moved to a 560 (I gave the 701 to my wife, so it was still around), but I
>got over it without too much pain. For you, your 701 may be so near and
>dear to you that you can't imagine leaving it for another computer. ;-)
I'd trade mine in for a 755 or 760 ANY DAY! (I hate the hinge cracking from
the Trackwrite keyboard, or just the keboard, period!).
>
<snip>
> PEP appears to be a very different outfit than they were a year or two ago
>when they annoyed us all with their blatant advertising on the list. Their
>new salesman, Leonard, has been most helpful in allowing us to do this and
>upgrading my machine free of charge so I could do the benchmarks and report
>to the list about the results.
>
> And when this question about "OK, cut through the numbers crap--was the
>upgrade worth it?" was posed, my first reaction was, "Well, I don't want to
>bias the results with my opinion--just let the numbers speak for
>themselves." I wrote Leonard and told him what my truthful opinion
>was--which you see in my note above. I didn't want to convey that to the
>list because it seemed ungrateful to all they had given us to do this.
>Leonard's reaction? "Tell them the truth."
>
Well, that's also good, because integrity and honesty are some important factors
in getting business, anyways. Now I have a better opinion about Pep sales,
rather than when whatever his name was would say a lot of crap that wasn't true.
> Now if you ask me, that's integrity--because he knew the truth was less
>than flattering to their upgrade product. The previous sales guy who used
>to infect our TP list used to tout claims of "Pentium-level performance"
>(and we now know that claim is a pile of manure).
>
Paul
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