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I just sent an Excel file with all of the Winstone and Winbench Test results to Emanuel Brown, who I'm sure will get this set up on his web page for all to see. That also includes my own benchmarking of my P120-based ThinkPad 560 as well as my desktop Pentium Pro 200 for your comparison. Please note that there are some Winstone scores that just won't show up. For some reason, there are certain tests that my 701 just *won't* complete--it hangs on the Netscape Navigator test and the PowerPoint 97 test, in particular. Unfortunately, this in turn messes up some of the overall test scores because it fails in these areas. Until Emanuel can set that up and you can get over to see those, I thought I could pass along the results of some of the "simpler" tests--that of Norton System Information (2.0--included in Norton Utils for Windows 2.0) and Wintune 95. The "Stock" 701C yielded a Norton SI score of 4.0. The SI score after the upgrade was 6.7. For comparison, a "typical" (I presume desktop) 386SX-16 serves as the baseline at 1.0. A 486-33 (I presume desktop) is a 5.9, and a Pentium 90 is 20.4. That gives you some idea of what Nortn SI thinks of the upgrade. Keep in mind this is a CPU-only benchmark. Please note that the following is *exactly* what the benchmark reports. In particular, the AMD 486 thing. Supposedly, this new CPU is an AMD "Enhanced"5x86, but no, that doesn't make it a Pentium. The benchmark apparently isn't fooled either--they see it as a 486 at 100 MHz. Basically it appears to be a clock-quadrupled (as opposed to tripled, as is the stock CPU in the 701) 25-MHz-based 486, plus the added advantage of AMD's floating-point math-coprocessor being extra fast (you can see that in the Whetstone score below). For Wintune 95, here's the details: Upgraded 701C Stock 701C -------------- --------------- CPU AMD 486 Intel 486DX4 Clock 100 MHz 75 MHz Dhrystone 36 MIPS 25 MIPS Whetstone 16 MFLOPS 6.9 MFLOPS Video Speed 2.9 MP/s 2.1 MP/s C: Cached Speed 4.4 MB/s 4.7 MB/s C: Uncached " 1.1 MB/s 1.1 MB/s RAM Read Avg. 84 MB/s 70 MB/s RAM Write Avg. 28 MB/s 30 MB/s RAM Copy Avg. 15 MB/s 13 MB/s If you just *can't* wait for Mr. Brown to put up the Excel file with the Winstone and Winbench scores on his web page, upon request I can send you the Excel file. Just let me know in private E-mail. I am reluctant to just send the file to the list because not everyone wants to or cares to see it. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California