My Dad's got a new Packard Bell Easy Note E6, which has a Sempron 3200+ in it and 256 DDR.
Now it boots like a mouse...it is SLOW as a tortiose I thought it was all Bloat Ware, and to be fair he like Norton stuff, so most of that is still in there, but nothing new has gone in.
I've disabled Norton Ant Virus for a test and it STILL takes 2 1/2 minutes to boot.
Is it because Lap Tops throttle themselves? Or it is simply that they run more gubbins in the back ground and despirately need 512mb.
My PC here at work is a P3 550 with 256 and it WHOOPS this Sempron 3200+ laptop 256 to death and back again
I've run MSCONFIG and trned off a few things, but most of whats running is supposed to be running.
This laptop is putting me RIGHT off laptops right now.
The chipset has set aside 64 mb for graphics leave 192 for XP, and thats probably to blame..but not entirely, surely.
I cant assign different amounts of RAM to the grpahics in BIOS...there's no option.
I'm well un-imprressed...and sadly, so is my Mum, for whom the thing was purchased brand new.
Any idea's guys? Should I just get some more ram?