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On Fri, 17 Oct 97 9:47:49 HST, David Ross wrote: >> 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 > > I don't see also how Winstone benchmarks are entirely accurate, as Microsoft seems to never have been good with writing decent programs. Paul