jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Dec 3 18:23:04 CST 2011
I have to say that the hybrid disk I bought made an enormous difference with Windows 7 in my laptop. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605%2050001305&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&SrchInDesc=momentus%20xt&Page=1&PageSize=100 It adds a 4 gig "SSD" (flash) cache to store small files that are loaded often. It takes several times loading things but on the second or third pass suddenly stuff loads faster. I bought one for my laptop and I was so pleased that I did the same for my wife's notebook. It is not the same experience as a full on SSD boot disk but very close. On my WMC system downstairs I repurposed an old 30 gb SSD drive that simply wasn't big enough to make the boot disk, and I put a 15 gb readyboost cache on it and put the swap file on the rest. That too has made an enormous difference. But for a notebook where you only have a single disk slot, try the seagate momentus. It may give the old laptop an addition couple of years. I actually replaced my brand new laptop's 5400 rpm drive with this thing and man what a difference. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 12/3/2011 2:50 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Hi Jim -- > > Yes, I do remember Vista - I have used it with the same laptop I mentioned with 2GB RAM for more than four years. :) > I've changed/enlarged HDD, added 1GB of memory and installed Win 7 this summer only. > This five years old PC is not good enough for full scale Windows Phone7.1 Development and it can't be used at all for SharePoint Development but other VS2010 SP1 project types development proceed smoothly on this PC, and MS Office 2010 "flies" on it. > > Yes, you're right "memory is the kicker" but for end-user systems 1.5 GB and even 1GB should be good enough for Win 7 I suppose. > 2GB is much better of course but AFAIU your customers can't install 2GB as that is not technically possible for their PCs - then that should be very old PCs? > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > > 03 декабря 2011, 19:22 от "Jim Dettman"<jimdettman at verizon.net>: >> >> It's the memory that's the kicker. Six years ago, the 2 and 3 GB machines >> you are describing would have been considered higher end machines; not the >> typical entry level machines that most businesses put in place. >> >> In fact if you remember when Vista came out, the big stink was that >> Microsoft said flat out "buy new hardware" if you wanted to use all the >> features (it was more then memory, but memory was a good part of it). Many >> at that time asked if Vista was even worth the upgrade price considering you >> could not use most of the new features if you didn't get new hardware. >> >> Win 7 is a far better OS then Vista and is what Vista should have been, but >> it's still something I would not consider running on anything less then 2GB. >> >> I have clients that have fallen behind on five year replacement cycles and >> have systems running from .5 GB to 1.5GB. Even with XP, that's a stretch. >> And yes I know memory is cheap, but in many cases the MB is maxed out and >> upgrading is not possible. Replacing the station as a whole is the best >> approach, but they've held off. >> >> Thankfully most of them are caught up now, but I still have a few >> stragglers. >> >> Jim. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov >> Shamil >> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 06:50 PM >> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8 >> >> Hi Gustav -- >> >> Yes, Windows 7 Ultimate runs very well here on my DELL Inspiron 9400 laptop >> Dual Core 2GHz Intel with 3GB RAM - 5+ years old device... >> >> And this old laptop also runs rather well Windows Phone 7 emulator while >> debugging/running WP7 project under VS2010 SP1 - a bit slow start-up (and >> XNA development isn't available AFAIS) but still well IMO to start learning >> WP7 development... >> >> Thank you. >> >> -- Shamil >> >> 03 декабря 2011, 01:45 от "Gustav Brock"<Gustav at cactus.dk>: >>> Hi Jim >>> >>> Of course, most old hardware won't do. >>> >>> But I just installed Windows 7 Pro on my 6 years old HP 17" Pavilion >> zd8000 (zd8237) laptop (P4, 3 GHz, 2 GB ram, 90 GB disk, ATI Radeon X600 >> with DirectX 9) and it runs of course not fast but smoothly. >>> >>> It took a little to locate the legacy ATI video drivers for Vista, though. >>> >>> /gustav >>> >>>>>> jimdettman at verizon.net 01-12-2011 22:11>>> >>> >>> Try running Win 7 on older hardware and you won't like it. >>> >>> Jim. >>> >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >