Re: [Thinkpad] 2647-81U Ethernet Question & Other Ideas

I may have a T23 arriving today VERY cheap and well equipped
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From: "Vicky Lamburn" <victoria@sunshinesista.fsworld.co.uk>
To: "Thinkpad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 2647-81U Ethernet Question & Other Ideas

> Hello,
>
> There are quite a few other differences from a T20 to T23. The biggie for
> me is the 133MHz bus jump from 100MHz; and the PIII chips also being
133MHz
> have 512KB cache instead of 256KB, also the possibility to have 1GB of RAM
> in The T23 vs. 512MB in T20-22
>
> You won't be able to upgrade afaik the graphics from your 8MB S3 SavageIX
to
> the 16MB S3 SuperSavageIX. There is not a massive difference, I think 3D
> rendering is a shade faster but it is negligible. I was playing Quake II
> fine on my T21, and Playstation and SNES games; so the difference won't be
> great, it does help with things like XP and Photoshop to have the extra
> memory and it is faster in 32bit colour; especially for DVD playback in my
> experience; so maybe it is faster then!
>
> My advice is calculate how much all those upgrades will cost; then see the
> difference between that cost and an actual T23. Then you should be able
to
> justify either upgrading the T23; or souping up the T20.
>
> Also, worthy of note, I believe the T23 has ethernet on the carrier board
> rather than on mini-pci as in the T20, 21 and 22; reason for this is to
> allow for wireless I think, not sure if this applies to all T23s or just
> wireless enabled ones. Also the mini-pci slot is bigger on the T23 to the
> T21 I had.
>
> Think carefully about it :-)
>
> Vicky
>
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