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    Slow T1 any way to speed up?

    Discussion in 'LG' started by berni29, Sep 11, 2007.

  1. berni29

    berni29 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    My T1 has 1.5gb of RAM but is really slowed down by the hard drive, almost anything you do brings it to a crawl. Its a bit like using a 486 pentium or whatever the chip was 10 years ago. Apart from that it is a great laptop.

    What do you guys to to help or upgrade?

    Many thanks

    berni
     
    berni29, Sep 11, 2007
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Defrag HDD, go in task manager how much stuff is running? What OS? You maybe right about HDD how fast is it? If it is a very slow one upgrading might be needed but try the rest first they can't hurt and are free.
     
    powerpack, Sep 11, 2007
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    beefman Notebook Consultant

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    It's a 1.8" drive so there's only so much you can do. Defrag it and keep as little running as possible... keep an eye out for SSDs to drop in price. IMO a 64GB SSD will do wonders.
     
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    berni29 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    Thanks, yes it is a 1.8" drive, and I would love to change it for a 64 or even 32gb SSD. How about if when at home I ghost my drive over to a fast USB external HD and boot from that? Has anyone tried it?

    By the way I am running Vista Business and have 1.5gb of ram.

    Many thanks


    Berni
     
    berni29, Sep 24, 2007
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    beefman Notebook Consultant

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    Go to 2GB RAM. Vista *really* needs it. Really, though, the best choice is to go back to XP. Vista is a more hardware intensive OS and leans harder on the I/O subsystems than XP did. Compound that with a 1.8" HDD and you have a recipe for syrupy performance. I have an A1 (slower proc, 1.8" HDD) and it zips along on XP. Some slowdowns when doing a ton of file writes but it's not too bad. SSD isn't a solution at present; it's actually SLOWER on writes than a hard drive. I believe 5400RPM 1.8" HDDs will be out relatively soon. That is the best solution.
     
    beefman, Sep 24, 2007
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