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Skriven 2004-11-09 09:42:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF GUERDAT
Ärende: Toshiba Laptop
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JG>JE>I took the laptop home with me for safe keeping. Also took all his
JG>JE>guns that were on the den wall and hid them out of sight. The
JG>JE>laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504, 1.1 Gb, 512 Mb RAM, 30 Gb HD.
JG>JE>Been playing with it a bit. It seems terribly slow compared to this 1.26
JG>JE>Gb, 256Mb desktop I am on right now. Sure surprised me. Actually he has
JG>JE>very little on it that would seem to me to be used/useful. Mostly the
JG>JE>programs that came preinstalled. Lots of fluff. It does have some MS
JG>JE>Office programs.

JG>JE>My question is "Why does it run so slow?"

JG>Generally, two reasons:

JG>1) The mobile processors are slower in actual operation compared to the same
JG>speed desktop units due to power consumption considerations.

Even when running while plugged into 110V?

JG>2) The hard drive is almost assuredly 4000 or 4200 RPM, slowing a fast
machine
JG>to a crawl.

Most likely it is - haven't looked yet but that shouldn't make it as
slow as it seems when doing only one operation, say booting up, should
it? Defragmenting a 30 Gb HD took forever even when the defrag prog said
it didn't need defragging.

JG>I've used my 650MHz. laptop to process images faster than my old 300MHz.
JG>system.  As long as I'm not swapping or otherwise accessing the hard drive
or
JG>wireless network it's faster on the laptop than on the desktop.  Involve I/O
JG>and things go downhill quickly...

I'm reluctant to add much in the way of programs since I do not have his
recovery CD, nor any of the programs he may have installed. Actually
after looking it over it doesn't look like he has been using it for much
of anything other than AOL e-mail.

Next step is to figure out how to make the PMCIA WiFi card work. I do
have a WAN operational here.

Jay



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