X301 Boot Time

Hi,
I'm considering the X301 with SSD; I want something more portable than my T61 and with longer battery life. Won't be using the DVD, just the 6 and 3 cell batteries.

My T61, even after following the guides on the net, takes about 1.25min to hibernate. Boot time, if I shutdown is about 2 minutes.

I'm trying to get a feel for what users are seeing with the X301 for shutdown and boot time, hibernate and wake time. I'm planning on running Vista x64, 4gB ram, MS Office Pro, VMware Workstation and NAV 2009.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards-Michael G.

 

It might be cheaper to get a infocase, SSD, and a ultrabay battery instead of going to a X301.

 

I'm going to receive my x301 with 80GB SSD on sat or mon,

but I can tell you about x300

34 boot time, 20 shut down, with windows 7

 

x64 should be 10-15 second slower, I don't know why you want x64

 

Memory addressing...

 

ya, I know , but it doesn't make any sense.

well, you use x64 because you want all the 4GB memory can be used, make the system" more faster" ? right?

however, if you use x64, your system will be much slower than x86...

 

64-Bit is a little slower to boot. However, it performs as well as, if not better than, 32-Bit once it's running.

I'm getting the 64GB Samsung 1.8" SLC SSD that shipped with the x300 early next week. Once I get it I will post comprehensive comparisons between the SSD and my 320GB 5400RPM drive (including boot, shutdown, and hibernate).

Just wait a week, and I can get you a pretty definitive answer.

 

x64 because I'm running VMware Workstation with a couple of VMs, one or two running at a time. Going from 2gB with Vista to 4gB with Vista x64 made a noticeable difference.

I was really considering going with a SSD in the T61 and may just do that. But the size/weight/battery life of the X301 is something I'd like. Also, the refurbished price is about $1500 which is very good.

Regards-Michael G.

 

you can pick up a brand new one from ebay about 1550 after live cashback.
It's way better than refurbished

or if you want, I know a seller selling a x301 ( I just picked one up) for 1670 but it's 2774-23U which suppose to have intel ssd

 

I had a OCZ SSD. It booted Vista in like 10 seconds. It had other issues like hanging while writing. It's why it had to go.

 

To Jonlumpkin. I am thinking of buying an X200s (320 GB SATA, and with the 1280 X 800 screen & webcam). I am guessing that HDD is the same as your X200T. Is it OK boot up time etc.? Mainly thinking about that system since 128 GB HDD is a little small to put a Windows 7 / Linux partition in it. In every day use (word, browsing, skype etc) how much faster is an SSD really? Also for the X200s series ... can one replace the SATA drive down the road with a 256or more SSD when they become affordable ?

 

The hard drive is easily replaced.

 

I ended up buying the 320GB 5400 RPM drive on my own, but it is from the same series as the 160GB drive that my x200T came with (Hitachi 5k320). You would likely get a similar drive, although the exact model can't be guaranteed (Lenovo uses several suppliers).

Vista boots quickly enough but there are a few key downsides of this drive/Vista. For about 5 minutes after I boot the machine is sluggish as Vista is populating the Superfetch cache (fine after boot though). Second, when I run close to my memory capacity (2GB at the moment) and switch applications I can definitely feel the machine paging to disk as it crawls for a few seconds. Third, the hibernate/resume time is brutal (>45 seconds each way) to the point that I rarely use it; however, standby is very fast in both directions.

I'll be able to tell you in detail about the differences in felt performance between an SSD and 5400 RPM HDD next week (mine arrives tomorrow).

Replacing the hard drive is easy. You just remove one screw to access the drive tray, and four more to to swap drives in the tray. That, and re-installing and/or ghosting the OS, is all you need to do. Any SATA or SATA2 drive will work without problem.