Re: [NTLK] Anyone have a review of the Speed Boost Implant?

I too was driven from the implant route by the cost. Because of this, I followed on the heels of a former Newtontalk member and using her idea and hints from Dr Newton, fashioned my own "implant". If you can find the 5mHz xtal, and have soldering skills, this is a relativly easy upgrade that brings your newt from 167mHz to about 216mHz, a 22% speed increase.(you can see that my particular newt was faster than this at over 218mHz: http://newton.tek-ed.com/newtspeed/img0011.htm)
  You can visit my site for step by step instructions on how I did this at: http://newton.tek-ed.com/newtspeed
   
  I also have the newton speed test application on my download site.
  You can see the packages available for download here:
  http://newton.tek-ed.com/
  It's called implant1.pkg and it's in the second column, 7 rows down.
   
  Gotchas on the speed upgrade?
  Well, if you use speach, expect alvin and the chipmunks..but you can play around with the speach preferences and get a moderatly normal sounding voice out of it...
  Other things? Serial communications will no longer work and beaming will not work with non accelerated Newts. Additionally, if you use a keyboard, you will no longer be able to use the keyboard until you upgrade the xtal on that as well. But since I don't mess with any of those things (keyboard on a newt...yeah right...that's funny) and my Newt is autonomous, I revel in the speed increase and live a happy go lucky existance.
   
  Ed
  web/gadget guru
  Download Newton packages directly onto your Newton: http://newton.tek-ed.com
   
   
  
Dean Johnson <djohnson16@sc.rr.com> wrote:
  I have one (came with the modded 2100 I bought from him) and a stock 2100
from J&K. The boosted one seems noticeably faster, though I have done no
actual timing tests, and yes; there is a switch present to turn boost off.

Dean Johnson
Sumter SC

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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of David Oxtoby
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:48 PM
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Anyone have a review of the Speed Boost Implant?

not had one myself, but i struggle to justify the cost, since the
newt does most things pretty quick, other than Web Pages, but there
getting fewer sites that NewtScape or Courier can handle anyway, so
web browsing on the newt is a gimmick rather than a fully useable
feature.

Dave O.

On 10 May 2007, at 18:06, Huxley Dunsany wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking into getting a Speed Boost Implant from
> newtonsales.com. I'm just wondering if anyone on the NewtonTalk
> lists has had such an upgrade performed (or done one yourself!),
> and if you have any thoughts on the topic. I understand that
> serial port communications will be messed up when the Implant is in
> use, but other than that, what do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Huxley
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>

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