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    Inspiron 1520 + Turbo Memory

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by paulmdavies, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. paulmdavies

    paulmdavies Notebook Consultant

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    I have recently purchased an Inspiron 1520 from Dell in the UK, and I found it to be slow at times when loading regularly used programs so I decided to fit a 1GB Intel TurboMemory card to it.

    The Inspiron 1520 has 3 mini PCI Express card slots on the bottom of the machine, for WWAN, WLAN and WPAN cards. The WWAN and WPAN slots are also marked "FCM" which according to Dell means Flash Card Module.

    So two questions, really:

    - Has anyone tried putting a TurboMemory Card into their 1520?
    - As it is not used for Bluetooth, what would the WPAN slot be used for?

    Thanks for your help. If noone has done this before, I'll post my experiences back here once the card arrives.
     
    paulmdavies, Jul 17, 2007
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Turbo memory won’t help you if you have a ton of bloat ware and a resource hogging virus guard. Did you do a clean installation after you got your notebook ? are you running something like Norton with default settings ? If so, then that is your problem.

    If everything else is optimized, then go ahead. Maybe turbo memory will make things load up slightly quicker. But I don’t think it’ll make any drastic improvements.
     
    PhoenixFx, Jul 17, 2007
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    hmmmmm, Jul 17, 2007
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  4. DoubleBlack

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    WPAN is only for Bluetooth...
     
    DoubleBlack, Jul 17, 2007
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  5. paulmdavies

    paulmdavies Notebook Consultant

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    Nope. WPAN is not for Bluetooth on the 1520 because I have Bluetooth and the slot's empty. It's under the strip at the top of the screen, a much smaller card. I'm guessing it may be for UWB or wireless USB or "Super Bluetooth" or whatever when it becomes available.
     
    paulmdavies, Jul 17, 2007
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    That's baffling, because AFAIK the only computer technology that is classified as such, with the exception of something stupid like IR, is Bluetooth...
     
    DoubleBlack, Jul 18, 2007
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