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Subject: my take on my cpu upgrade...

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Frank Salonga

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Date Posted: 10:44:10 12/14/99 Tue

So about a month ago I got a cpu upgrade from ase, and just now after the semester's end did I find time to write about it.

I originally had a 233 mmx in my vivante se when I originally got it in august 1998. I wasn't planning on upgrading this soon, but my keyboard stopped working, so instead of dealing with the inconvenience of sending my laptop by slow boat back and forth twice, I said I might as well upgrade now, while ase is still offering the service.

I was hoping for a 466 celeron, but the fastest they had in stock was a 366 for $200 (or a PII 400 at $400 - I don't think so).

Overall, the machine does feel noticably snappier - nothing earth-shattering however.

Really, the only thing I have to say about this whole cpu upgrade thing is this: it really didn't matter. My girlfriend is looking to replace her aging laptop, and I've been playing around with some of the latest and greatest PIII's and I can't notice any remarkable differences between these machines and my own (even when running only at 233). I think that 2 year's difference in technology today has much less importance than say in the mid to early nineties, when two year difference meant either a 486-66 or a pentium pro 200 (now that's a difference!).

overall, I'm still happy with my transmonde purchase, but truth be told as I rapidly approach the end of my days as poor undegrad/graduate student, I'm thinking more and more about usability issues and quality instead of bang for buck. Hopefully, in the next year or so IBM will put out some flavor of thinkpad 600 with a higher resolution TFT, and then I've found my next laptop :)

oh, as far as dealing with ase - I *hate* the new process. I realize that at least they're still there and all, but a computer science grad student without his machine for three weeks is not a happy man. At least there still is service, but good gracious is it slow.

-Frank(who can't figure out why he would need a port replicator, even if it is free...)

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