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To all those concerned about the 701 PEP upgrade: Yesterday I received the CD's from Ziff-Davis for Winstone 98 and Winbench 98, and I have begun running these benchmarks on the "base" 701. I will also be running Wintune 95 and because it is convenient, Norton Utilities' (2.0) little benchmark for processor speed. Winstone takes forever and every little hiccup has to be attended to--I left it running last night thinking it would be done today, but alas...the PowerPoint test didn't go over well (neither did the Netscape test--I had to abort that one) and needed to be re-started this morning. At any rate, when I complete all these benchmarks to get a baseline for my stock 701, I will send the machine in (presumably this week) to PEP for the upgrade. I don't know how long that will take, but whenever it comes back, I'll run all of these again and we'll have "before & after" results to look at. I *presume* you don't want me to post long reports of the results to the list, so I'll probably send them directly to Emanuel Brown for posting on his Website (and someone else volunteered...was it Dave Ross or Mitchell Yee? And Mitchell Yee wanted to send me a 701 HD with the statistics package SAS loaded on it and run some Stats-related tasks on it. Mitch, just run the baselines on your base machine, then send me the HD (with instructions) once my upgraded machine is ready...well, get it ready, we're almost ready to go! Meanwhile, Lee Laniear may want to contact me as he was going to bring an OS/2 HD to stick into my upgraded 701 machine and run some OS/2-specific tests. I presume that will be in a week or two, Lee, so mark your calendar. If you will run those OS/2 tests on your stock machine to get a baseline, then we'll be ready there. Meanwhile, those who are going to post the results (E. Brown and whoever else) on websites, please contact me directly regarding how I should send these results to you. For instance, the ZD benchmarks save to some sort of database. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet (the machine is too busy *running* them), so I'm not sure if I can just print a report out in ASCII form to send to you. Or perhaps in Excel? Talk to me! :-) ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California