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I understand that Outlook 97 monitors, slowly, all the updates of office 97 documents. To speed it up, this can be turned off in Outlook (or don't have Outlook active). My main complaint about Word97 is how they screwed up Heading (and other) Numbering! Ciao, Tom _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FROM:Tom Trottier, MBA Senior Technical Architect SHL Systemhouse Ltd. Ottawa Global Development Centre *50 O'Connor St. Suite 501, Ottawa K1P 6L2 Canada (+1 613 236-6604x5539 fax 232-5182 :ttrottier@shl.com >---------- >From: Paul Khoury[SMTP:pkhoury@loop.com] >Sent: 1997 October 18 - Saturday 08:14 >To: David Ross; Robert Munzenrider >Cc: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu >Subject: Re: Thinkpad upgrades > >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 > >