From: Keith Wong (pirate_at_lava.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 04:51:18 EDT
--Hello, I've just purchased a used 701c "butterfly" Thinkpad. I was
wondering if anyone had upgraded their processor from
"www.portables.com"? They offer a AMD 5x86 upgrade that would bring the
little butterfly up to the speed of a pentium 75mhz processor. This
company seems to be really professional and knowledgeable, but I would
just like some customer comments. If any of you have done this upgrade
on the butterfly, could you tell me how the machine is? Is it worth the
upgrade? Does all modern software work on the machine after the
software? Is it reliable? Any heat problems? Do demanding
applications (office97, winfax, netscape) crash more or less than
before?
I realize this machine is outdated, and expensive to get up to
useable speeds, but I like the novelty of it, and the fact that it was
one of the few laptops to win an "engineering?" award. I mean sure a
Lotus with a V-8 has over 300ponies, but the old one with only 4
cylinders and it's soft "whirrrrr" is much more novel. Anyhow, this is
Keith from Honolulu, Hawaii saying greetings to everyone on the list.
Thanks in advance for your responses.
--Keith
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