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    HDD vs RAM upgrade for ST5020D

    Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by mr_bankai, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. mr_bankai

    mr_bankai Notebook Evangelist

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    I've installed vista ultimate onto my ST5020D. The handwriting recognition is much improved over the one from XP. The thing is my tablet only has 768MB of RAM. Vista is recommended to have 2GB i know...but it installed and it doesnt crash or hang very ofter (maybe once every few months). Of course Areo doesnt work, but i was wondering which upgrade i would benefit from the most. dont really have the money to do both. Either I buy a hitachi drive with double the performance of my current drive(in terms of avg read/writes) or i buy a gig of RAM and swap out the 256 dimm. After performing HD Tune on my current drive it came up with about 15Mb/s avg. it also takes about 2-3mins to boot into windows which is pathetic...vista reports that 40% of the RAM is used while idling. Based on that im leaning towards the hdd instead of the RAM. other opinions?
     
    mr_bankai, Aug 14, 2008
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  2. Phil

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    15Mb/s average is terrible I agree.

    If you are quite satisfied with the way Vista runs once it's started and unhappy about boot and loading times, a HDD upgrade is the way to go.
     
    Phil, Aug 15, 2008
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Alternatively, you can avoid the slow boot process by using hibernation / resume.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Aug 16, 2008
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  4. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    You could upgrade the RAM but this want necessarely improve necessarely your boot time. The slowest item in your tablet is your CPU (1.1Ghz).

    Vista is a huge operating system (8-10giga in the harddrive). If you don't want to go back to XP you should give vLite a go. It will allow you to eliminate all the thing that ships with vista and that you're unlikely to use such printer drivers...

    This is a good tutorial (step by step) on how to make vista lighter
    http://teamtutorials.com/windows-tutorials/fit-a-vista-install-on-a-single-cd
     
    naton, Aug 18, 2008
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