Laptop and Windows the sequel


Ok folks

To clarify the situation. I have a brand new laptop (a Dell High range Inspirion), I have a brand new hard drive, and I have a brand new installation of Windows XP.

My point is not on the hardware but more on the software. I have the feeling that Windows is not fully adapted for a laptop.

Why on a desktop in the same conditions, I can run all my projects without any specific entries in SQL logs ?

It seems that the problems happens after one or two months, not at the start.

And this time, I decide to install only the basic requirements, no fancy screen saver or Google toolbar.

This is actually my 10th laptop in 10 years and I always have difficulties if I want to do more than Word and Excel with them.

Ah ! If only I could carry my desktop with me all the time, I will be so happy.

Maybe I should call Mary Poppins and borrow her nice magic bag , you know the one where you can store a full apartment and furnitures:-)

 

6 Comments

  • How much RAM do you have in your laptops? In my machines, I feed it at least 512mb to garner an acceptable response.

  • I'll stick with my earlier comments. I have never had any problems - and every laptop I owned required an OS install after I purchased it. Lay down the OS, then deal with .NET, SQL 2000 and finally Office. The only thing my latest laptop required was some careful thought over .NET... I decided since my habits and requirements did't need Framework 1.0 nor VS 2002, I skipped this. You see, my 60G harddrive came already partitioned 30G each, and throwing everything on the C: drive (my personal preference - keep all MS products on the Windows drive) would have left about 300M free!





    Good luck. If I can have no issues with this, I gotta believe any halfway decent geek should - I'm an MCSD but have never aspired to be MCSE! :P

  • Dave





    I don't say I am unhappy with my laptop ! I just say I open a debate on the fact that Windows is not really adapted for a laptop.





    Take another example, the battery meter.





    Do you find it's very accurate ? I don't think so.





    IMHO MS had never proof the concept of windows and mobility.





    Tablet PC OS goes in the right direction.

  • I think the accuracy of the battery meter depends to a large extent on how accurate the battery itself is and how accurate the measuring sensors are, not so much on Windows. My laptop's battery gets reported very accurately...





    Just upgraded my laptop to 512MB too.

  • How is a laptop's hardware any different that a desktop's hardware?

  • Robert,





    Most new laptops use the Pentium-M (Centrino chipset) or the mobile version of the P4 (like mine does); thus they need different motherboards, power supplies, etc. from desktops. Also the hard drives, DVD-ROMs, CD-RWs, etc. are usually smaller to fit into the laptop chassis.

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