Humble dual processor 12 in Laptop with 4GB RAM installed . Laptop is a "Generic" Philips Freevents 12NB5800 (Philips don't even recognize they made it but the BIOS starts up with the Philips logo) . I think it might be a "Rebadged" Twinhead or Acer.
I upgraded the original 100 GB hard drive to a faster one (320GB Toshiba 2.5 in Laptop drive) and added 2GB to the original 2GB RAM.
Processor is dual T7250 2.00GHZ
Get a VERY acceptable performance on W7 X-64 -- I'm not a gamer or such so the laptop performs just FINE -- it's slightly larger than the 8.9 Netbook I've also been using. This laptop was very cheap in Dixons (UK) and I use it if I need something with a slightly larger screen than the Netbook .
Hard Disk performance can often be a bottleneck no matter how good the rest of the components are.
Try optimising that first. Set DMA on if possible and it can be worthwhile to upgrade a hard disk -- even on a laptop it's easy -- get one with the LARGEST POSSIBLE CACHE. The CAPACITYE of the hard disk isonly a rough indicator -- larger capacity disks usually perform better, but the CACHE SIZE is a critical component in a Disk's speed and performance especially if it's the primary (or only) hard disk.
SCSI disks have other considerations -- I'm assuming your's isn't a SCSI disk.
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Cheers
jimbo
I upgraded the original 100 GB hard drive to a faster one (320GB Toshiba 2.5 in Laptop drive) and added 2GB to the original 2GB RAM.
Processor is dual T7250 2.00GHZ
Get a VERY acceptable performance on W7 X-64 -- I'm not a gamer or such so the laptop performs just FINE -- it's slightly larger than the 8.9 Netbook I've also been using. This laptop was very cheap in Dixons (UK) and I use it if I need something with a slightly larger screen than the Netbook .
Hard Disk performance can often be a bottleneck no matter how good the rest of the components are.
Try optimising that first. Set DMA on if possible and it can be worthwhile to upgrade a hard disk -- even on a laptop it's easy -- get one with the LARGEST POSSIBLE CACHE. The CAPACITYE of the hard disk isonly a rough indicator -- larger capacity disks usually perform better, but the CACHE SIZE is a critical component in a Disk's speed and performance especially if it's the primary (or only) hard disk.
SCSI disks have other considerations -- I'm assuming your's isn't a SCSI disk.
Enc screenshot
Cheers
jimbo
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