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mimurray

09/30/10 11:44 PM

#28483 RE: renshen1 #28482

It seems top 11% is my average score. I looked through the items in Startup, and several are essential, and the ones I could safely disable I don't believe would improve the performance very much more. And disabling a few of them would mean more than just a couple extra mouse clicks to manually get to the device should it need adjusting. So I really can't see much benefit in disabling them to maybe gain a percentage point or two.

The average of the tests I ran was right at 11% with 4582 being the highest weighted score. It's interesting how the scores can vary. I would run it and get 11%, then do nothing to the machine and rerun it and get 14%, then run it right away again and get 11% again. Usually the variance was due to slightly different internet speed scores. The one constant, high score is in disk storage. If the machine had a 500 gig hard drive I think the score would probably dip a little below top 10%, maybe get it to the top 7 to 9 percent, and raise the overall weighted score a tad. But the space on the machine as it sits now is more than enough for the work load it will be handling.

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mimurray

09/30/10 11:55 PM

#28484 RE: renshen1 #28482

Also, the last few laptops I've owned were all 32 bit, and 2 gigs of RAM was the most. It's quite a difference having a 64 bit machine, with 4 gigs of RAM. Very noticeable speed difference.

The previous machines have all been HP/Compaq also. I kind of like this Toshiba machine and would definitely recommend the brand.