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>>All these numbers are too technical for me. My question is: Is it worth >>the money for the upgrade? > > Well, this is difficult for me to answer. I had wanted to just let the >numbers speak for themselves and not render an opinion, but if forced, I'll >editorialize a bit. > > In a nutshell, I don't think so--at least for me. > > I had a 486-75 MHz, so this upgrade boosted it to something about the same >as a 486-100 MHz. Overall speed increase in typical applications...I'd say >about 20%. > > For me, that's just not significant enough. For me, I require at *least* >a 75% speed increase--preferably a 100% increase (at or near doubling) >before I think its worth considering an upgrade. For me, in laptops I went >from a Sharp 386SX-20, to a ThinkPad 750 (486SL-33), to a TP 701 >(486-75--but I have to say that the smaller form factor of the 701 made the >less-than-stellar performance increase less of an important factor), to >finally a TP 560 (Pentium 120). In every case, that was a speed increase >of about 2x or better (a little less in the case of the 701 acquisition >over the 750). That's just something I require before I spend money on a >new machine. > Wouldn't the operating system also make a marginal difference? > Now an upgrade may be something different for you than it is for me. I >always very much liked the 701--so much so that I rather missed it when I >moved to a 560 (I gave the 701 to my wife, so it was still around), but I >got over it without too much pain. For you, your 701 may be so near and >dear to you that you can't imagine leaving it for another computer. ;-) I'd trade mine in for a 755 or 760 ANY DAY! (I hate the hinge cracking from the Trackwrite keyboard, or just the keboard, period!). > <snip> > PEP appears to be a very different outfit than they were a year or two ago >when they annoyed us all with their blatant advertising on the list. Their >new salesman, Leonard, has been most helpful in allowing us to do this and >upgrading my machine free of charge so I could do the benchmarks and report >to the list about the results. > > And when this question about "OK, cut through the numbers crap--was the >upgrade worth it?" was posed, my first reaction was, "Well, I don't want to >bias the results with my opinion--just let the numbers speak for >themselves." I wrote Leonard and told him what my truthful opinion >was--which you see in my note above. I didn't want to convey that to the >list because it seemed ungrateful to all they had given us to do this. >Leonard's reaction? "Tell them the truth." > Well, that's also good, because integrity and honesty are some important factors in getting business, anyways. Now I have a better opinion about Pep sales, rather than when whatever his name was would say a lot of crap that wasn't true. > Now if you ask me, that's integrity--because he knew the truth was less >than flattering to their upgrade product. The previous sales guy who used >to infect our TP list used to tout claims of "Pentium-level performance" >(and we now know that claim is a pile of manure). > Paul The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 30 Processes with 92 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 8h 30m 27s 343ms.