Your uber laptop probably has a 5400 RPM drive just like your "lessor" laptop. If this is true the HD is the bottleneck for you.
Both HD's are basically the same speed. One has undo a 2gig hibernation file the other a smaller one? Hibernation writes your memory contentst to a...
Of course it does. Windows NT 4.0 and above has supported multiple CPU's provided the applications were written to be SMP aware.
With XP and Windows 2003 the OS got alot better and spreading the load over mulitple cores.
XP and 2003 officially supported Hyperthreading as well. (2000...
Network copy is crazy slow for me compared to XP, Ubuntu and OS X.
I do small business consulting and I take my notebook with me all of the time and many times I copy files to and from my notebook to a clients network/server.
Example the other day I was at a clients office. They have a...
Being a long time MS product fan....I would have to agree.
I know there are people out there that think Vista is great and it works just fine for them but hopefully they did not pay for their copy of Vista....ie it came with a new PC.
Vista has some major problems right now. For me this...
Set your Autoupdate service to disable and re-boot.
Since Feb there has been a major problem with XP and auto update causing high CPU. Most people that have the problem are using WSUS but lots are not.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831/p/1
Or...
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