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Albert
I have a new Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with XP Home and all the latest
updates. It came with 256 MB of ram and a 2.3 Ghz processor. We do run
Norton Anntivirus in it, but otherwise it doesn't have alot of
software add ons that suck computer resources.
We have it setup for 3 users, each family member has their own area,
but we have only basic aps such as Eudora, Internet Explorer etc. But,
it's not slow becasue each user has aps running....it's just as slow
from a fresh boot up with only a single user logged in.
It takes a long time to boot and shut down, we expect this to some
degree. Hard drive searches are very slow, I'm told this is typical
for XP though. It takes forwever to load a program however. To switch
users takes minutes, not seconds. It's horribly slow and sluggish.
My win 98 1 Ghz Pentium runs 3 to 5 times faster, and it's loaded to
the max with software and programs that do use lots of computer
resources (Pagemaker, Word, Photoshop etc).
We had hoped to transfer most of our resource grabbing software over
to the new laptop, but based on the way it runs simple basic aps
(slow), moving over Photoshop and Pagemaker etc) would create an
unbearably slow computer. We find that we are holding onto the old
computer and using it more and more becasue the new Dell laptop (which
should be faster) just ain't makin' it. If a thief broke into my
house, I'd beg them to leave with the new Dell laptop so we could
continue to use the 6 year old 1 Ghz Pentium boat anchor system!!!!!!
I know the laptop has design compromises to make it use less battery
power, but we rarely run it on battery power anyway. Are there
settings in the software that make it run with less power compromise
issues?
Should we be looking for a problem in the laptop, or is 256 MB choking
it as far as being too little ram??? I'd appreciate some guidance here
as 256 MB of ram seems like it should run the computer in it's present
stripped down state.
Please reply here or email me directly to KY1K at pivot dott net.
Thanks.
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updates. It came with 256 MB of ram and a 2.3 Ghz processor. We do run
Norton Anntivirus in it, but otherwise it doesn't have alot of
software add ons that suck computer resources.
We have it setup for 3 users, each family member has their own area,
but we have only basic aps such as Eudora, Internet Explorer etc. But,
it's not slow becasue each user has aps running....it's just as slow
from a fresh boot up with only a single user logged in.
It takes a long time to boot and shut down, we expect this to some
degree. Hard drive searches are very slow, I'm told this is typical
for XP though. It takes forwever to load a program however. To switch
users takes minutes, not seconds. It's horribly slow and sluggish.
My win 98 1 Ghz Pentium runs 3 to 5 times faster, and it's loaded to
the max with software and programs that do use lots of computer
resources (Pagemaker, Word, Photoshop etc).
We had hoped to transfer most of our resource grabbing software over
to the new laptop, but based on the way it runs simple basic aps
(slow), moving over Photoshop and Pagemaker etc) would create an
unbearably slow computer. We find that we are holding onto the old
computer and using it more and more becasue the new Dell laptop (which
should be faster) just ain't makin' it. If a thief broke into my
house, I'd beg them to leave with the new Dell laptop so we could
continue to use the 6 year old 1 Ghz Pentium boat anchor system!!!!!!
I know the laptop has design compromises to make it use less battery
power, but we rarely run it on battery power anyway. Are there
settings in the software that make it run with less power compromise
issues?
Should we be looking for a problem in the laptop, or is 256 MB choking
it as far as being too little ram??? I'd appreciate some guidance here
as 256 MB of ram seems like it should run the computer in it's present
stripped down state.
Please reply here or email me directly to KY1K at pivot dott net.
Thanks.
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