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New Laptop Purchase Help
NickG:
Laptops seem to have some problem, I'm not sure what it is but they seem to slow down exponentially! My desktop lasted much longer but even that is slowing down a bit now, not sure whether it's some sort of virus or what. With my last laptop I reformatted the hard drive, it was a cyrix 333mhz and after that it was very fast, booted up in a minute or so etc. Might have to do that on the desktop soon.
The machines are getting faster but the programmes are taking more and more processing power just because they can it seems!
Just around the time when everybody started to buy PC's for the home, we got an apple mac, it was 8MB ram and a very small hard drive - 40Mb or something I think. But with that you could fit the whole of claris works (equivalent of office) onto 1 floppy disk!
Nick
What a great machine that was, not sure what macs are like these days but I bet they're a damn site better than PC's as all the hardware is specific I believe. Mind you, the cheapest one is about twice the price of the cheapest PC!
John Rudd:
--- Quote from: spuddevans on January 10, 2010, 05:31:48 PM ---The only thing I can offer to the discussion is to beware of the cheap laptops, or more specifically, beware of the LCD hinges on cheap laptops. Both myself and a family member had bought cheap laptops ( both were from different manufacturers and were different processors, features ect ) and both suffered with failures to the LCD hinge area after the warrenty ran out.
also make a difference to scrolling through pages of text in a Word document or a webpage.
Tim
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Tim,
Its not necessarily limited to the cheap end of the market, my son's Asus laptop that he purchased from Laptopsdirect was £1200 when new....The hinges on that have failed and it is out of guarantee....An expensive repair is looming... :(
Darren:
--- Quote from: NickG on January 11, 2010, 05:25:33 AM ---Laptops seem to have some problem, I'm not sure what it is but they seem to slow down exponentially!
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I don't think it's a laptop thing...
--- Quote ---The machines are getting faster but the programmes are taking more and more processing power just because they can it seems!
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That's the one :thumbup:
I have found Vista to be the worst culprit for this "slowdown" You start with a nice fast fresh install and it goes downhill from there. You can de-frag, delete junk and unused files etc but it seems to make little difference. The only real way to get the speed back is a clean re-install.
I did try Vistalite and that makes a huge difference. Takes a much longer time before it becomes painfully slow. Don't miss anything that is stripped out either, you wouldn't really know anything was missing despite the Lite version is a fraction of the size.
There is an XP version as well, not that XP has many issues to start with.
Even Windows 7 slows down over time so don't go rushing out buying 7 thinking MS has finally got things licked. 7 is Vista bandaged up, or certainly seems like it, works faster anyway without the memory hogging death knoll of Vista. Not a lot else seems to have changed despite their advertising splurge.
--- Quote ---What a great machine that was, not sure what macs are like these days but I bet they're a damn site better than PC's as all the hardware is specific I believe. Mind you, the cheapest one is about twice the price of the cheapest PC!
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That's always been the problem with Macs, may well be a better option than a PC, but they also become old too quickly and at the price ..........
Darren:
--- Quote from: John Rudd on January 11, 2010, 06:48:09 AM ---
Its not necessarily limited to the cheap end of the market, my son's Asus laptop that he purchased from Laptopsdirect was £1200 when new....The hinges on that have failed and it is out of guarantee....An expensive repair is looming... :(
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That's interesting, This one I'm on now is a middle range ASUS ... no hinge problems yet, but then I always leave it open and rarely adjust it .... thanks for the warning.
NickG:
My mums laptop has some media edition of xp, a few years old and it's painfully slow. The work laptops are new hp compaqs and they are horrible too. Where as my desktop seems to be able to deal with everything much more easily. For some reason all the laptops I've had or known are shocking - I get almost to the point of smashing it up when trying to use my mums or sister's laptops! We're still using xp though.
Nick
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