From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 13:26:26 EDT
Keith..
Leonard is OK..
he'll do the upgrade and stand behind it..
i got him to do one for one of my 701C machines and its faster, but my time
is so limited i have not had time to do more than just an initial boot up
and a few tests which DO show a speed increase, over the 486/75 chip..
Keith Wong wrote:
> --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 I realize this machine is outdated, and expensive to get up to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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