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Attention all 701 "Butterfly" owners: Emanuel Brown and I have worked out an arrangement with PEP where they will do this CPU upgrade on my 701C machine (currently a 486/75 machine with the 720 MB HD and a 16 MB RAM module installed) for a nominal cost. The deal is that I am to run the various "real world" tests & benchmarks on the upgrade machine and report to everyone on the list (and I presume Mr. Brown will report it on his web page as well) for your consumption--so you can see whether the CPU upgrade delivers the significant speed increase that makes it worth your while to pay for the upgrade or not. Now here's the problem that needs to be solved: What suite of "tests" do you want me to run? I would like to see a consensus among the 701 users about what constitutes a fair & unbiased test suite that would give you the information necessary to make a judgement about whether PEP's CPU upgrade delivers the goods or not. Until we have that consensus, there is no point to my taking up PEP's time and money to do this--you have to be "on board" as it were, concerning the fairness and accuracy of the tests' results in the real world. I offer my own skeptical and unbiased independence in performing them, but I await your collective decision regarding *what* tests should be run. Ideally, I want this settled so I can run the tests on the current "stock" machine before I send it in for the upgrade--so you have a true "before & after" set of test results. I await your decision... ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California