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On Wed, 01 Oct 1997 13:28:09 -0400, Robert Munzenrider wrote: >John Kim has an excellent commentary about the virtures & lacks thereof of >the TP701. I'll agree with all of 'em based on my 2-yr+ experience with >one. Withall, I like my 701. It is cute <G>. BUT.... > One thing I would add. Background: My 701 is 486/75, 24 megs of ram, TFT >screen, 720 megs of hard drive. My addendum: the machine is SLOWWWW when >running MS Office 97 apps under Win95. There are noticeable lags when >entering data into Excel spreadsheets, text into Word documents, etc. A >second or two, seems like, Enough to be noticeable. These apps need a >pentium processor! Or Microsloth could also design them better, and make them run like UNIX, which is probably the only OS I've seen with the least overhead. > >My 701 has been reliable. No failures/problems that have required >returning machine for repair. But overall, I have to recognize that it's >a 3-4 year-old design, and the software coming along now is outpacing it. >Sure wish I could upgrade it with a pentium processor. > You actually can upgrade to a 586, a 486 class processor with faster than Pentium speed, but it voids the warranty. I think that above all though, RAM would make things smoother. Just my 2 cents. Paul