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    Mx7515 Hd

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by karl-r, Oct 16, 2005.

  1. karl-r

    karl-r Newbie

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    Hey Everyone,

    I am new to this board but found it very usefull when deciding to buy my laptop. I consider myself a pretty intense user as I use my laptop with a program called Serato Scratch which is a dj tool that more and more nightclub dj's use. When I was looking for a laptop I came here and found the MX7515.

    Anyways I love my laptop I bought and found out something intresting. I purchased mine from Best Buy and everything on Gateways and BB's site says 4200 RPM Drive and I belive people are saying its a Fujitsu well that drive speed would be to slow so I went a bought a 5400 RPM Drive.

    Thanks to some patience before I opened the drive box I pulled my old drive out and its a Hitachi TravelStar 5400 RPM Drive @ 100 Gig. If you go to your device manager this drive id should show up HTS541010G9AT00 if it does you have a 5400RPM drive by now means does this sub for my external drive where all my music is stored but a better relief and even makes me feel better about my purchase.

    So far the MX has been great used it for 2 days in a row in the club for 5 hours nonstop and no audio problems and system lagging yet. If anyone has any tips on the AMD side for better performance let me know. I already disable PowerNow so I am good there.

    I just wanted to see if Gateway gave me a gift with the drive or they are misprinting stuff.

    Thanks

    Karl
     
    karl-r, Oct 16, 2005
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  2. ginzero

    ginzero Notebook Consultant

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    Wow you lucked out. I definitely had the Fujitsu.

    I installed my new 80GB Hitachi Travelstar 7200rpm into the MX7515 over my lunch break. The recovery DVD took about 25minutes to complete. I have to say that the recovery image seems to have no junkware, unlike what the preinstall package came with. I wish it had opions for partition resizing, I'll have to rebuild once more to make room for Linux.
     
    ginzero, Oct 17, 2005
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