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    slow M1530 ?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Mr_Maz, Apr 7, 2008.

  1. Mr_Maz

    Mr_Maz Notebook Guru

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    Hi All,

    just had my M1530 delivered and everything seems to be going really slowly. even the initial bios loading took its time.

    the system is T9300 2.ghz, 3gb ram and 256mb GPU etc..

    it does have Vista on it, and this is the first time i have purchased a Vista system. But i would have thought it was quicker than this.


    All help appreciated.

    Maz
     
    Mr_Maz, Apr 7, 2008
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  2. ryan27406

    ryan27406 Notebook Consultant

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    Well, i had the same issue with mine, but once i got it up and running its very fast

    Vista is slow, i wished they had an xp option

    On the bright side you should at least get 17fps in Crysis on Medium
     
    ryan27406, Apr 7, 2008
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  3. Mr_Maz

    Mr_Maz Notebook Guru

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    thanks Ryan,

    I don't play games anymore. kind of got sick of it after helping set up GameFrontier.

    i just decided to go for a loaded system to save me upgrading until i break this one
     
    Mr_Maz, Apr 7, 2008
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  4. ryan27406

    ryan27406 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, well, if you got back into games you got a heck of a good gaming laptop
     
    ryan27406, Apr 7, 2008
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  5. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Yeah, just use it for a few hours and reboot it a few times and see if Vista sorts itself out. It has a bunch of "optimizations" which can take a while to sort out. Failing that, it's probably a bloatware issues so do a clean install with the OS of your choice. I'm sure there's an XP-on-1530 guide floating around somewhere.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 7, 2008
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  6. Mr_Maz

    Mr_Maz Notebook Guru

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    thanks Commander W
     
    Mr_Maz, Apr 7, 2008
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    lqaddict Notebook Consultant

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    Cough-cough, reformat/get rid of the bloatware (sticky in this forum). Once done, visit the Sticky in the Windows OS forum to speed the Vista up by disabling unneeded services/indexing/etc
     
    lqaddict, Apr 7, 2008
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  8. jack53

    jack53 Dell XPS 9360 i7 Lover!

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    That worked real well for me! As Nike says " Just Do It" :)
     
    jack53, Apr 7, 2008
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