My computer's slow, speed it up....
 

Customer comes into the shop complaining their laptop is slow...

Compaq Presario...
Celeron m 1.6 [thumbdown]
512mb ram
80gb hdd
Vista home basic


seriously??? Vista+Celeron 1.6=epic fail, of course its slow

EDIT: I only got 2 hours sleep last night... maybe that why i think they're idiots

Should be alright for internet and word processing etc?

Vista HP with no aero + Office 2007 etc works well on my little sister's very old P4 1.9 with 512MB RAM for a uni PC.

It just sucks to see people come in all the time complaining about slow PC's when they spent the least amount possible on it in the 1st place. People still somehow dont understand the phrase "you get what you pay for"

Since it's a notebook all your can really do is add more RAM, so put 2GB in there, make sure virtual memory is set right. (3052mb-5196mb) Charge the customer double... etc. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/wink1.gif

Vista Service Pack 2 seems to help slightly with performance and stuff.

Sure. I can speed it up. All the way to 9.8m/s^2. I can almost certainly get it to 200mph.

Lol, that's bad.

I've used Vista Home Basic on a laptop with 448MB of memory (64mb shared video memory) and i've never felt such a sluggish computer in years.

1GB feels like it's just enough for Vista (although far from perfect), but 512MB and below? You're asking for trouble, even with XP fully up to date with drivers. 2GB should be the minimum for Vista IMO.

yeah, i had forgotten how bad Vista sucked. I just switched my E6400 Dual Core/4gb of ram over to Win7 64, and it literally feels like a brand new computer. Vista is the shittiest OS of all time, imo. Certainly from a memory resources standpoint. It might have been slightly more stable than WinME,

I've seen quite a few of these bottom barrel PC's + laptops with 512mb RAM and Vista. I have a box full of pulled 256/512mb DDR2 SODIMM's after all the RAM upgrade's i've done to get them up to useable levels...

They always mention how they got a great deal on the POS systems too... [yawn]

Well I ran Windows Me for a year, and Vista for over 2 years and I can say that Windows Me was stable on my system but not on so many others. I knew how to tweak it so it was good!

Vista was extremely stable for me but it was slower in games than Windows XP was, at least in that first year.

Depends on the terminal velocity... Assuming acceleration comes purely from gravity.

i have been using win me on several systems and never have had any problem with it
it was always stable and fast..

i use vista as a secondary OS along with XP, i use it mainly for internet and xp for gaming
vista is a nice looking os but its NOT intended for games or anything of that kind
XP is far superior. even with vista fully updated its no match for xp.. some how vista does not have the feeling of being finished..