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Re: OT: Ultraportables--recommendation sought
- Subject: Re: OT: Ultraportables--recommendation sought
- From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:40:31 -0500
Harry Binswanger wrote:
Oh-oh. I hate long boots. What speed processor do you have?
One of the reasons, I believe, that laptops are so slow to boot is
that they are 1) short of RAM; and 2) have slower hard drives than
desktops. The latter is with a view to saving power when the PC is
running off the batteries. The former is just to keep the price down
(laptop RAM is, IIRC, dearer that desktop DIMMS): this weekend at a
show and sale, dealers were offering 2d-hand laptops with 128 and 256
Mb of RAM running XP. I want 512 just for 98SE. I tired W2K on a 256
box, and it took 15 minutes to boot.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx