Re: how much ram for Inspiron 1100 laptop?

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From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:48:46 -0700

Albert wrote:

> I have a new Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with XP Home and all the latest
> updates. It came with 256 MB of ram and a 2.3 Ghz processor. We do run
> Norton Anntivirus in it, but otherwise it doesn't have alot of
> software add ons that suck computer resources.
>
> We have it setup for 3 users, each family member has their own area,
> but we have only basic aps such as Eudora, Internet Explorer etc. But,
> it's not slow becasue each user has aps running....it's just as slow
> from a fresh boot up with only a single user logged in.
>
> It takes a long time to boot and shut down, we expect this to some
> degree. Hard drive searches are very slow, I'm told this is typical
> for XP though. It takes forwever to load a program however. To switch
> users takes minutes, not seconds. It's horribly slow and sluggish.
>
> My win 98 1 Ghz Pentium runs 3 to 5 times faster, and it's loaded to
> the max with software and programs that do use lots of computer
> resources (Pagemaker, Word, Photoshop etc).
>
> We had hoped to transfer most of our resource grabbing software over
> to the new laptop, but based on the way it runs simple basic aps
> (slow), moving over Photoshop and Pagemaker etc) would create an
> unbearably slow computer. We find that we are holding onto the old
> computer and using it more and more becasue the new Dell laptop (which
> should be faster) just ain't makin' it. If a thief broke into my
> house, I'd beg them to leave with the new Dell laptop so we could
> continue to use the 6 year old 1 Ghz Pentium boat anchor system!!!!!!
>
> I know the laptop has design compromises to make it use less battery
> power, but we rarely run it on battery power anyway. Are there
> settings in the software that make it run with less power compromise
> issues?
>
> Should we be looking for a problem in the laptop, or is 256 MB choking
> it as far as being too little ram??? I'd appreciate some guidance here
> as 256 MB of ram seems like it should run the computer in it's present
> stripped down state.
>
> Please reply here or email me directly to KY1K at pivot dott net.
>
> Thanks.
>
> A
>
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