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These results are interesting, since (a) Gainbery (whose site seems to have disappeared) used to show a much smaller Winstone '95 increase with a comparable upgrade, and (b) when ZD ran Winstone '95 tests on an Evergreen upgrade of a DX-33 system, they only measured a 40% difference (and that wasn't starting from a clock-doubled system!) I can't help but notice that the way that Evergreen presents the results on their page clearly violates the licensing agreement from ZDlabs (see http://www.zdnet.com/zdbop/winstone/license.html); in particular, they don't say anything about video resolution, configuration (how much HD cache?) and even what hard drive/cdrom they were using (after all, Winstone '97 can *only* be run from a cdrom, but the 701 doesn't come with one). If the Winstone 97 improvements are so good, why were the laptop upgraders on this list so reluctant to give them? However, isn't surprising that there's a decent improvement from the DX2-50 version of the 701 to the AMD chip - the benchmarks on my CPU upgrade web site show a decent improvement in a similar situation, from a DX2-66 to an AMD586-133. (About 70% speedup on some apps, and 3-4 times as fast on nonsystemic benchmarks like Norton and whetstones.) The AMD is an awesome chip. > tests, then upgraded to processor to a 586 (133MHz, at least that is what > they claim). Here are Evergreen's results: Well, we all know that this is false. David R.