Aging laptop question....is it time to change<more>

elazarus · 04-09-2008, 04:30 AM

Hi,

If my IBM T-43 notebook which is almost 4 years old with a Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5mb RAM, seems like it is slower than ever is it time to change?

I have pared down the hard drive, Cleaned all Temp, Cookies, spyware, lube, oil and filter. Updated all things IBM and drivers...Yet, when I take the laptop out to travel on business it just seems slow, slower...slow...

I know it will never be as fast as my desktop....but how do I determine if the time has come to change notebooks?

Thank you

Elliot

camel lips · 04-16-2008, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elazarus

Hi,

If my IBM T-43 notebook which is almost 4 years old with a Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5mb RAM, seems like it is slower than ever is it time to change?

I have pared down the hard drive, Cleaned all Temp, Cookies, spyware, lube, oil and filter. Updated all things IBM and drivers...Yet, when I take the laptop out to travel on business it just seems slow, slower...slow...

I know it will never be as fast as my desktop....but how do I determine if the time has come to change notebooks?

Thank you

Elliot

I would suggest backing up all your data and doing a fresh install and see how the performance is before going out and buying a new one.

I realized the other day that I was using my laptop basically as a external
storage device.SOOO,,I took everything off the HArd drive I wanted to save to a external drive and re installed OS.Running fast again.

speedyink · 04-16-2008, 06:10 PM

What camel lips said. A fresh install should help, your specs aren't all that bad, it definately should be a moderately fast computer. Also make sure you change the spark plugs, they could be fouled

04-09-2008, 04:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
elazarus Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 50	Aging laptop question....is it time to change<more> Hi, If my IBM T-43 notebook which is almost 4 years old with a Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5mb RAM, seems like it is slower than ever is it time to change? I have pared down the hard drive, Cleaned all Temp, Cookies, spyware, lube, oil and filter. Updated all things IBM and drivers...Yet, when I take the laptop out to travel on business it just seems slow, slower...slow... I know it will never be as fast as my desktop....but how do I determine if the time has come to change notebooks? Thank you Elliot

04-16-2008, 06:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
speedyink Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vancouver Island, Canada Age: 21 Posts: 1,879	What camel lips said. A fresh install should help, your specs aren't all that bad, it definately should be a moderately fast computer. Also make sure you change the spark plugs, they could be fouled __________________ Desktop/Laptop: Acer AM5100/Dell Inspiron 6400 AMD Phenom 9500 Quad core @ 2.2GHZ/Core 2 Duo T5300 @ 1.73ghz 4GB DDR2 RAM/2GB 533mhz RAM 750GB HDD/120 GB HDD 512mb Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS @ 800/2000/1050/256mb Radeon Mobility X1400 HM Vista Ultimate x64/Vista Home Premium Winner of Photo Tournament: Mountains, Cold, Spiders, Engineering My Deviantart

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