My parents old Inspiron 6000 is fast again!

We ordered an Inspiron 6000 notebook about 3 years ago I think and it was pretty fast when we first got it but then it got slow as crap. The 2.0 Ghz Pentium M is alright so I figured it was probably the 512mb of RAM so I replaced it with 2 GB and it made it fast for a little while then slow again. This also fixed the problems we had all the time of the thing crashing ... had problems with it all the time. But then it got slow again, so I decided to do a reformat, however there was one problem to this. That series didn't come with the windows restore disk. They would never give it to us in the past because they claimed it was "on the hard drive already" and just to do a restore. So I decided to call them up on Friday, I talked to the guy for about 15 mins, he found a copy of Windows Media Center Edition 2005 and said even though my computer ran out of warranty a long time ago they would send me that and all the driver disks for free. I got them this morning, they sent them freaking Fedex Air Express and now that laptop is blazing fast after the reformat. The best part was that it was all free, no cost. I am really pleased with how much better Dell's support has gotten over the years. I've had bad experiences in the past but as of late they have been really good in customer service.

 

Awesome! I am glad you had great experiences. Inspiron 6000 fast again... lol.

I did something similar, except I just basically cleared up a ton of space on it and did a few tweaks here and there to get it ship shape.

 

Well I know it's not fast for gaming but I mean for your every day stuff it scoots around pretty fast.

 

I know what you mean, mine is no better than yours. Though it does boot up faster and for web browsing, and watching P2P TV, it works great and is much speedier than before.

Obviously not for gaming, but... it does good at what it does.

 

Hey I still do light multitasking on my single core turion laptop. But then again I do hit the limits of that rig pretty fast, whereas my dell still has yet to freeze or really slow down no matter what I throw at it.

 

Actually a Pentium M 2.0Ghz is still a great mobile CPU and with 2GB of ram that thing should be pretty damn fast. Not sure what type of GPU it has, but even if it has onboard, that system should be pretty damn fast in anything but games.

The Pentium M was basically the origins of the current Intel Core architecture. I remember seeing benchmarks of a Pentium M overclocked to 2.5Ghz on a desktop motherboard made for Pentium M cpus and it was smoking the crap out of the fastest CPU of the time, the $1000 AMD FX-55. Don't under estimate the Pentium M, it's much better then it's name suggests and it's really not a Pentium at all.

 

It is really fast for everything but games because ...

1. Integrated Intel Media Accelerator (More like Decelerator )
2. My parents are over 40 and don't really know or care to know anything about games

But I like the laptop now ... I hated it before I fixed the thing.

 

And in turn based on the Pentium III architecture, just a smaller fab - Intel had to go backward to go forward

 

Yeah funny how its a Pentium yet isn't plagued by the net burst architecture.

Intel took several bad steps when trying to outdo AMD in the clock speed war. What they did to get higher clocks ans trick the consumer into buying that crap hurt them bad, but alas the M and shortly after the CD saved them.

 

And yet . . . the AMD turion Ultras seem to benchmark just a little behind in speed compared to the C2D's. I look forward to AMD's next butt-kicker. If it ever emerges.