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Randy, you are the well placed in the business school, a subsidy would be nice indeed! I'd consider that myself! ;) As ep noted, what I had in mind was for someone interested in the upgrade to negotiate a half price deal in exchange for a solid unbiased report. And indeed you or ep would be technically competent enough to properly run the testing...except for ep having sold his 701... (Good grief, Charlie Brown!) Oh, are all the upgrade paths out there the same? I've only seen the PEP offering. Ep notes a May 95 release date for the 701 but it must have been 94 as I bought mine early in '95 after the deep discounts. As I recall they were originally about $6K and then were finally blown out at just over $2K. The deal of the decade, thank you IBM. Cheers all, Bryan At 02:03 AM 10/20/97 GMT, you wrote: >On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:36:29 -0700, you wrote: > >>At 03:32 PM 10/19/97 -0700, user wrote: >>>On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Bryan Daum wrote: >>>> The only fly in >>>> the ointment would be that the ibm warranty loss is also part of the price >>>> you would pay... >>> >>>But since there are plenty of 701s out there that have recently gone >>>out of 2-year warranty, that might be moot. >> >> Its a 3-year warranty though. Mine still has a year to go. >> >> > I was thinking the same thing. The 701 was released in May 1995, so >the earliest someone would be out of warranty is 5/1998. As for the >previous message, the impression I had was that it would be suggested >to PEP that they give someone half off in exchange for his >recommendations. Perhaps someone can email Leonard and ask either if >they're interested in sponsoring such a deal, or can they offer up a >701 owner as a reference? > epbrown >Stop by the Portable Computing Center for reviews, >editorials, and the FAQ on laptop computers. >http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown >Laptops: Kiwi 680TX and IBM 510CS > >