[ltp] X60 - (bad) experience, others?

[James Knott]

Adrian Walker wrote:
> Hi All --
>
> I have had an X60s for about 6 months now.  Portability is really great.
>
> Works fine with Red Hat Fedora Core 6 -- no heating problems, and
> surprisingly fast.  About 5 hours on the high end battery.  My old
> external CD burner is plug-and-work.
>
> I occasionally remove the internal Linux hard drive and plug in the
> Windows Vista one that came with the machine.  Vista, as delivered by
> Lenovo,  is *incredibly* slow on the X60s. About 2 hours on the high
> end battery.   10 minutes to restart or cold boot.  (30 minutes if
> Windows is doing an update!).  When connected to the net, Windows
> sometimes decides to restart the machine without checking with the
> user first -- not so great for demos!  The hard drive light stays on
> about 95% of the time.  I know, I should probably look into tuning --
> but my feeling is that the system should at least have decent
> performance as delivered.

Here's some info that may help:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/83EC0FFE-EE04-4D53-8B87-25D1F05C954E1033.mspx
"With these tips, you just might be able to turn your tortoise into a
hare—or at least a faster tortoise."  ;-)

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