Upgrade suggestions for e1405

I'm looking for a way to dramatically increase the speed at which it does video editing, like creating photo slideshows for dvd and editing movies from my camcorder, etc.

Have already upgraded to 2gb of dual channel ram, plan to upgrade to a 7k200 per recs from previous post, and will upgrade from t2400 to t7200 although I don't expect a lot from that upgrade but maybe some.

any ideas what kind of performance gains going from 2400 to t7200? Is it worth the $200 or whatever the 7200 cost? I've already ordered the 7k200 from lagoom.com, they had teh best deal at $143 for the 200gb.

thanks for any info and maybe any other tips. I expect just cleaning the hdd and adding the 7k200 will have a huge impact.

 

If you're working with heavy video editing, you will see a speed boost going to the T7200. I don't imagine it'd be huge, but it will be significant. Whether or not it's worth the extra 200 dollars depends on how much you value that extra time spent on CPU intensive tasks.

Upgrading to the 7K200 will help like program load times and maybe file transfer times, but I don't think that'll do too much for the actual video editing. Not much you can do at this point, though, considering that you've already got 2GB and that 7K200.

 

I'd go 64bit OS with 2x2GB of RAM and T7200 Processor with at least 7200 RPM high speed HDD.

That would be a major upgrade.

I recently sold a e1405 after wanting to do simliar upgrades. After I looked at the numbers I ended up selling the e1405 and buying a Thinkpad R61 14.1" Widescreen with T9300, N draft wireless, 7200RPM Hard drive, 3GB of RAM. On XP Pro 32bit. Costed about $300 more than upgrading my E1405.

 

I don't think the e1405 will take 4gb of ram. I already have two & I never use most of that w/ xp.

I ordered a 7k200 200gb drive already & I think that alone may give me a huge improvement.

Why do you suggest going 64bit? Is it for the 4gb memory access? I don't think I'll need that for what I'm doing. I do mainly encoding episodes of shows for ipod, dvd ripping for converting to ipod, etc, slideshows for dvd & capturing video and converting. Still need to find a good slideshow program but I think the one I am using now isn't multithreaded anyway so 64bit may not help it much.

Would I get better overall multitasking ability with 64bit?

 

I can see why SonDa5 would suggest a 64-bit OS, due to the increased performance they provide. Though, it would be somewhat of a contradiction to only have 2GB, because you will only see the benefits with at least 4GB. Your laptop may bog down every now and then, having 2GB in a 64-bit OS. XP 64-bit may run more efficiently with 2GB than Vista.

 

The e1405 has a maximum memory capacity of 2Gb. 4gb of memory will not work with the system.
I second the harddrive upgrade as that will help speed up the system.
I would go into the start command and type in MSCONFIG.
Then go to the services and startup tabs, and shut off background processes and programs which you do not use. This will help free up system resources, and result in faster loading and boot times.

K-TRON