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> Everything Steve says about upgrading seems upgrading accurate, but > still.... I have a 2-year-old TP701 (Butterfly model) with a SLOWWW > 486/75 processor. Evergreen Tech will install an AMD P5 chip (I forget the > model specs) for $400. The AMD chip is rated at 133 mhz, but they say that > the effective speed is equivalent to a Pentium 75. So _they_ say. Even AMD doesn't make this claim for their chip. You should take a look at my own tests, at http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross/cpu.html (I also have pointers there to disappointing systemic benchmarks run by Gainbery, who I believe OEMs the upgrade for Evergreen.) BTW, the slowness of Office97 is the fault of MS, not your machine. When I moved from the same machine you have to my P133 TP560, I didn't see that much improvement, especially on MS Publisher. It is simply a horrendously written program. - David