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    upgraded the 6809 today

    Discussion in 'eMachines' started by Rlbol, Jun 25, 2004.

  1. Rlbol

    Rlbol Notebook Enthusiast

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    I replaced my harddrive with a 60gb 7200rpm drive and replaced one of the memory chips to 512. What a differnce!!!
    everything loads so much faster. I reinstalled office 2003 which took about half time versus the old hard drive. I just amazes me how much difference it made! If anyone is thinking baout doing it i higly recomened it! then go out and buy the usb case for your old harddirve and now you have an 80gb portable drive!
     
    Rlbol, Jun 25, 2004
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    bootleg2go Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Yes, it's amazing how much of a difference a 7200 rpm drive will make.

    Jack

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    healimonster Notebook Guru

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    how much does 80 gig 7200 drives go for?

    what is faster? start up/shut down?

    thexbox.blogspot.com
     
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    bootleg2go Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Hi Rlbol,
    both startup and shutdown are faster as well as program loads and pretty much everything will run faster. I can't give a price for an 80GB 7200rpm drive because nobody sells an 80 gig right now. The Hitachi 60GB is the biggest 7200 rpm currently. It sells for $210
    Jack

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    $210?!! Sorry, unless it improves the speed by 90% (From a minute down to 10 secs to load, I rather save the money and spend it on a better CPU and/or graphics board.
     
    prisonmate, Jun 26, 2004
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    Well the drive was some what expensive but i need the extra storage so now i have and extra 80gb hard drive for video. ANd with the price of the computer and all the upgrades , it is still far less then the sony i was going to buy! And it has improved the perforance a lot on it
     
    Rlbol, Jun 27, 2004
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    I must say, being a first time notebook user, I was underwhelmed with the overall speed of my M6809. Going from a 1.5 g P4 desktop, I was expecting everything to be notable quicker, and from the perspective of program load times I havn't been able to notice anything at all (compared to my desktop). But I still love it all the same.

    thexbox.blogspot.com
     
    healimonster, Jun 27, 2004
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