From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Feb 04 1999 - 18:00:10 EST
Paul..
would be wonderful to have a 701 P-75 SVGA machine, but the 701 was killed when all TP design
was moved to yamato, japan..
701 fills a niche and you'll need a tire iron to pry it out of the dead hands of many die
hard <g> users..
Paul Khoury wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 01:18:54 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
>
> >The 701 butterfly is becoming a classic, a collector machine..
> >most likely the very first contemporary classic..
> >most already know there is one on display in the museum of modern art in
> >NYC..
> >while they will run win98 and others say NT4, they are becoming a bit
> >slow..
>
> But it does work. But yeah, they are both quite slow.
>
> >the beat up ones are available occasionally for $100 to $300 depending..
> >
> I got one for about $200 once on eBay, because the guy thought the screen was bad
> (when it fact he didn't know how to change the contrast). Look for bargins like that for
> those of you who sort of "trust" eBay.
>
> >a really perfect and complete one would be worth about $500 to $700, not
> >based upon speed or max memory,
> >but based on the small size, simple design and so forth..
> >
> >I recently had the cpu upgraded in one of my 701C machines so as to see
> >if the speed increase was really worth the $$..
> >
> >i suggest that you watch the misc.portables newsgroup and other thinkpad
> >forum for sale ads..
> >(beware of EBay since you are ultimately dealing with an unknown seller)
> >
> >so far the max HDD size the 701 will support is 6.5gigs, and max memory
> >is 40megs on the 486/75 machine..
> >
> I have to admit (my 2 cents' worth) that while my 701 seems to be getting
> slower and slower, it's been a good machine for the 2 years, 11 months that I've had it.
> It's not a bad machine, but it would have been nicer if they had a Pentium 75 version
> of the same machine (and a TFT panel that would at least do 800*600).
>
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