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[hotel21]

I use a desktop machine when at home but have a laptop for when I'm out and about and at the Pikey Palace as and when.

Happy with the desktop, does all I ask of it really, but the lappy takes ages to load and it does not like to multitask.

Its an Asus X58C series, 160 gb hard drive, 1024 mb memory with Celeron processor and Vista basic.  I use it with an external voda dongle to connect to the internet when I cant poach a wifi connection.

Question is, given the current crop of 'sales' in the offing, do I ditch it and buy something quite shiney and new or is it worth simply upgrading the memory or what.

Over to the experts on here as, frankly, I am quite clueless on such hardware matters.......   

[freecall666]

when did you last defrag hard drive? on laptop. best dongle to get is 3, £15month and 15gb month. good signal every were. all so download win fix from window update fix most problems on startup.

[tunnie]

I use a desktop machine when at home but have a laptop for when I'm out and about and at the Pikey Palace as and when.

Happy with the desktop, does all I ask of it really, but the lappy takes ages to load and it does not like to multitask.

Its an Asus X58C series, 160 gb hard drive, 1024 mb memory with Celeron processor and Vista basic.  I use it with an external voda dongle to connect to the internet when I cant poach a wifi connection.

Question is, given the current crop of 'sales' in the offing, do I ditch it and buy something quite shiney and new or is it worth simply upgrading the memory or what.

Over to the experts on here as, frankly, I am quite clueless on such hardware matters.......   

Before shelling out too much cash, I'd put a copy of Windows 7 on there first. 7 is much better running on slightly underpowered hardware than Vista.

Maybe bring it down for an upgrade next time your down south?

[hotel21]

when did you last defrag hard drive? on laptop. best dongle to get is 3, £15month and 15gb month. good signal every were. all so download win fix from window update fix most problems on startup.

Where I regularly use the dongle, Voda is, simply, the only signal worth its salt.  Tried O2, Orange, 3 et al, and only voda does the biz...   

[hotel21]

Hear what you say Tunnie, but got a couple of squids free at the moment.  Unsure of whether to upgrade the hardware on the current setup or simply start again with a new one.  The one in use didn't cost much and I have had my monies worth, I reckon....

[cem_devecioglu]

I use a desktop machine when at home but have a laptop for when I'm out and about and at the Pikey Palace as and when.

Happy with the desktop, does all I ask of it really, but the lappy takes ages to load and it does not like to multitask.

Its an Asus X58C series, 160 gb hard drive, 1024 mb memory with Celeron processor and Vista basic.  I use it with an external voda dongle to connect to the internet when I cant poach a wifi connection.

Question is, given the current crop of 'sales' in the offing, do I ditch it and buy something quite shiney and new or is it worth simply upgrading the memory or what.

Over to the experts on here as, frankly, I am quite clueless on such hardware matters.......   

Before shelling out too much cash, I'd put a copy of Windows 7 on there first. 7 is much better running on slightly underpowered hardware than Vista.

Maybe bring it down for an upgrade next time your down south?

agreed.. whatever hardware you buy , will slow down on the long term..

win7 or if not avail try xp..

[freecall666]

when did you last defrag hard drive? on laptop. best dongle to get is 3, £15month and 15gb month. good signal every were. all so download win fix from window update fix most problems on startup.

Where I regularly use the dongle, Voda is, simply, the only signal worth its salt.  Tried O2, Orange, 3 et al, and only voda does the biz...   

had vodafone last year and found it was making faults with laptop, got 3 and no problems, and faster on the net 5 bars ever were, fodafone had to put out the window (dongle) to get good signal, 3 dont need to can go any were.

[CaptainZok]

Based around the budget Intel Celeron processor, the Asus X58C ships with the 1.2GHz Celeron D 220. With only 1024MB of memory and installed with Windows Vista, this is a slow-loading machine, especially if you have more than one window running, but a memory upgrade will easily solve this problem.
Lifted from here.
http://whatlaptop.techradar.com/node/1358

So it seems that a ram upgrade would help your problems B.
Laptops direct spec sheet suggests it will take up to 4Gb of memory which usually means buying 2x 2Gb sticks and dumping what's already in there.

[hotel21]

when did you last defrag hard drive? on laptop. best dongle to get is 3, £15month and 15gb month. good signal every were. all so download win fix from window update fix most problems on startup.

Where I regularly use the dongle, Voda is, simply, the only signal worth its salt.  Tried O2, Orange, 3 et al, and only voda does the biz...   

had vodafone last year and found it was making faults with laptop, got 3 and no problems, and faster on the net 5 bars ever were, fodafone had to put out the window (dongle) to get good signal, 3 dont need to can go any were.

When I power it up and use my home network (20 meg B/band etc) its still as slow as a slow thing so don't think the voda thing is too great an issue.  Will do an uninstall/reinstall of the voda software though....

[cem_devecioglu]

memory upgrade good idea, but wont bring an efficient operating systems performance..(and a newly installed file system efficiency)

[hotel21]

Based around the budget Intel Celeron processor, the Asus X58C ships with the 1.2GHz Celeron D 220. With only 1024MB of memory and installed with Windows Vista, this is a slow-loading machine, especially if you have more than one window running, but a memory upgrade will easily solve this problem.
Lifted from here.
http://whatlaptop.techradar.com/node/1358

So it seems that a ram upgrade would help your problems B.
Laptops direct spec sheet suggests it will take up to 4Gb of memory which usually means buying 2x 2Gb sticks and dumping what's already in there.

Thats it in a nutshell Cap'n.  Any recommendations for chips?

[CaptainZok]

Based around the budget Intel Celeron processor, the Asus X58C ships with the 1.2GHz Celeron D 220. With only 1024MB of memory and installed with Windows Vista, this is a slow-loading machine, especially if you have more than one window running, but a memory upgrade will easily solve this problem.
Lifted from here.
http://whatlaptop.techradar.com/node/1358

So it seems that a ram upgrade would help your problems B.
Laptops direct spec sheet suggests it will take up to 4Gb of memory which usually means buying 2x 2Gb sticks and dumping what's already in there.

Thats it in a nutshell Cap'n.  Any recommendations for chips?

Crucial
is where I got my last lot from, plus the online scanner will tell you what to fit.

[Dodger]

Had similar problems with an IBM Thinkpad, and ended up increasing memory from 1 to 2 gig, and also reformatting HD and reloading OS (XP pro). just doing both these speeded up the machine by 75% or more.

ps: Vodaphone is total & complete shatt!! (wouldn't touch it with a bargepole!!) neighbour was with them, & took phone & dongle back under their 'no signal' warranty, as 75% of the time ther was...no signal!!

[freecall666]

vodafone softwear mucks up the reg files after a time sms dose the most damage, when the reg files get mucked about get slow start up and slow internet explorer, win fix is free and from micro soft on there down loads, just get the right one would say yours is 32bit not 64bit. but if it runs faster after its fixed reg, plus when you remove vodafone softwear its not all removed, so even if you uninstal it you will just be putting every thing back as it was before. softwear fault have to go into windows and find all the files and remove them in systerm32 and also fix reg files. then get a clean setup.

[eddie]

If your not adverse to alternate O.S's try Linux (Mint is good).

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1581

eddie