Re: OT: Ultraportables--recommendation sought

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

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