Old pc faster than ecent

[cameron conner]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:41:40 -0600, Brad Johnson wrote:
>>> Personally, I don't know why anyone would buy a laptop WITHOUT a 7200RPM
>>> HDD.
>> 
>> Not to intrude here, however battery life and heat are two major 
>> reasons for staying away from 7200rpm drives in laptops...
>> 
> 
> You bring up a good point. There will be more heat from a 7200RPM drive.
> If your laptop is badly built and has just enough cooling power and
> battery life to handle it's stock equipment, you may have troubles.
> 
> On the other hand. Some laptops can handle a 7200RPM drive just fine. My
> IBM T42 Laptop has a 1.7GHZ processor, 15" screen, 7200RPM HDD (stock),
> 1GB RAM and my battery life is over 2 hours. My HDD temp is 33 C which
> is below body temperature and sensors-applet shows the cooling fans even
> turn off at times. 
> 

You consider 2hrs of battery life okay? Mine gets 3-4, and that's with 
wifi and bluetooth. It's only got a 4200rpm drive, but I know ones 
similar that have 5400rpm drives get about 3 hours, and they have 
bigger screens.

Does the fan run? Hardly ever. You don't want the bloody thing to 
unless it needs to. It kills battery life and is really annoying.

> The result is a laptop that feels like a desktop. At work I have a Dell
> laptop with a 2Ghz processor, 512MB RAM and a 5400RPM HDD. The IBM walks
> all over the Dell simply because of HDD speed.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
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