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    RapidBoot + older products

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by lenardg, Apr 26, 2011.

  1. lenardg

    lenardg Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Although the description for the RapidBoot package says it is available for newer systems only (X220, T420, T520, W520), has anyone tried to install this on older systems? As this supposedly contains only tweaks to the operating system, driver load order, registry, etc, I don't see why it would not work (at least partially) on older systems.

    Lenovo's driver architecture is also very global, so that you often use the same drivers across a vast range of models. This would also make it possible to use something like this on older models. I might be wrong .. still, I would like to know if anyone has been able to use this?
     
    lenardg, Apr 26, 2011
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  2. Colonel O'Neill

    Colonel O'Neill Notebook Deity

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    I installed it on my T400 and X100e. Seemed to do something on both cases.
    Both were fresh installs.
     
    Colonel O'Neill, Apr 26, 2011
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  3. unreal25

    unreal25 Capt. Obvious

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    On X200t I went from (using BootTimer) 31.1s to 28.5s.
     
    unreal25, Apr 26, 2011
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