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Re: OT: Ultraportables--recommendation sought



At 11:48 PM 3/20/2007, Wolfgang Bechstein wrote:
This just goes to show that sweeping statements like "the faster the
processor (or the more RAM) the quicker the boot" aren't worth the
electrons they're written on. A _lot_ of factors enter into the picture,
many of them hard to pin down, such as the number of services run at
startup, the vagaries of various hardware components and their
respective drivers and so on and so forth.
Exactly! It's what's loading and trying to run -- on a T-Pad all
those M$ services, plus IBM's myriad machine utilities, plus on my
machine Symantec Corporate trying to update itself and so on. Chasing
all those down is a real job, which is why folks who have time, often
reformat those machines, reinstall the Opsys and rebuild the drive.

Michael Norman