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---------- > From: laniear@ibm.net > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: RE: CPU Upgrades - some real world numbers > Date: Friday, May 23, 1997 11:28 PM > > > > > > NOT even close ...RE: p75 performance > > The 701 is/was a lovely machine but SLOW. > > I don't have one; but all benchmarks I have seen > > (mainly PC Mag which tend to be the only meaningfull ones ..sigh) > > indicated poor performance for it's class. > > I DO have a 701C ThinkPad and while it is slower than my Pentium and Pentium PRO it's plenty > fast for the stuff I do when I take it out to client locations. I worked with several people > who had Toshiba Pentium portables and for what we were all doing there was no substantial > difference in the time required to do our work. > > From my perspective what is important is whether the machine I use slows me down and so far > this one does not. > > Lee > > ||----------------------------------------------------------|| > || Lee Laniear || > || laniear@ibm.net OR laniear@netcom.com || > || || > ||----------------------------------------------------------|| I concur... My 360CE is only a 486DX2-50. For the WEB browsing,e-mail and gently correcting the great unwashed on usenet ;-} ; it's fine. For Video capture it's both amazingly good and frustratingly slow. Capture using the $80 NEC/Nogatech Capturevision card is fine...ish. But post compresion, especially with Intel's Indio 4.1 is maddening. For reference I have both a Pentium Class AMD K5 PR-133 and a Cyrix 6x86 PR-150. Since neither has a PCMCIA slot direct comparisons are impossible. Next week maybe not : Tiger is dumping the EPSON combined PCMCIA card reader/1.44 Mb Floppy for $50. Anyway post compresion on those machines is MUCH faster. Why anyone would want to do Video capture on a old laptop is a completely different issue (grin). Hint: Netmeeting /Inernet Phone Stuff etc ....Watching Mobile TV..