I will wager on hard drive rotational velocity and disk cache size. The difference in performance between a 4200 RPM and a 5400 RPM system, or 5400 to 7200 RPM system, is significant. Most older drives have a 2 MB cache.
I'm using a circa 2001 Dell Latitude C600 P3-750 laptop (512 MB RAM running XP) at home with an upgraded 7200 RPM drive (8 MB cache) and it is fast enough for my needs. I wouldn't use it with a slower drive in it. > -----Original Message----- > How come my IBM ThinkpadX31 PM1.4 2gb ram (but the same was true before > I upgraded from 1gb ram) with exactly the same stuff running (except for > lots of ibm stuff extra) runs and performs sooo much better than my Dell > PIV2(w/intel speed boost) 1gb ram (max it will take) running the same > but none of that ibm stuff? Neither has any viri or spy or other > fections... ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
