Please Help

[Dave M]

I could have really used something like that back when all I had was Win/95
with full memory slots and 48 Meg ...along with a USB port or two of
course. Thanks for that pointer, Bill. I'd not heard of the feature
before.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm told by the experts that it works. I've not seen much real-world press
proving that. USB drives that are readyboost capable should not be too hard
to find, and don't command a large price premium--but as it happens, none
that I have apparently qualify!

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[Tom Emmelot]

Hi JTim, sorry,

Yes i was before i answered that question at the Dell site to find that out.
But Bill was back with a lot of information! ;-)

Kind regards >*< JTOM >*<


Tim Clark schreef:

 

[Robinb]

Vista Home basic only needs 512mbs of ram as long as you are not putting
large applications on it.
Most of the Vista home basic computers are sold with a minium of 512mbs ram
Home premium can run with 1gig but i recommend 2gigs
I am just surprised that the sales person at dell recommened you to just do
512 unless you did it online and felt it was less money and did not realize
you need a bit more
Mcafee I found runs slow on vista while AVG runs fine
Check to see also what is in startup to see if you have a bunch of craplets
that were loaded with the computer that you do not need to load on startup.
Also Vista and I have seem 200 of them load slower than XP because it has
alot of security to load so if you are comparing it with xp- do not because
you will not be accurate enough.
Vista takes longer to load and longer to shutdown than XP
robin

 

[Bill Sanderson]

With a reasonably new laptop, and Vista, I would encourage users to use
sleep, rather than shutdown. As long as all the drivers support the power
management functionality well, this is far faster than shutting down and
restarting, and more productive.

 

[Robinb]

true but if you need to shutdown because you are traveling- it still takes
longer for Vista to load (than XP) - it is just the nature of the beast-
even if you put 3gigs of ram in it.
Believe me, I have seen it on enough vista computers to know.
robin

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I believe it. There's a lot to load, and most laptops come with somewhat
slower than average drives. The new hybrid drives are one response to
this issue--they have both ramdrive and hard disk components, and Vista will
use the ramdrive component to speed the boot process. I've never seen a
machine with one of those, though.

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[Robinb]

probably too expensive- since laptops are expensive enough
robin