laptop damn slow also on fresh install: where lies the bottleneck?. Hi! I'm really frustrated... the laptop is a HP Pavilion ze5500. Charateristichs are: 2 so-dimm 256 mb, pc2100 266 mhz, cl 2 & 2.5 cpu: celeron 2.60 (this should be a desktop celeron...

WHY IS THE AMD FX-60 SO DAMN SLOW?. You honestly think they tainted with the computers/benchmarks ? When the task manager was opened, the conroe had 35 processes running, amd 32 processes running, amd system 8% cpu usage, conroe 2% cpu usage, you do know that...

it into the server on my network and get transfer speeds faster than the puny 10 MB/s that WD has put on my lovely World Book II??? Im sorry but 10MB/s is just too damn slow for archiving large amounts of data and I need to find a viable alternative. Any...

on the WoW icon (yeah, world of warcraft) and waited....and....waited.... after far to long, it popped up the screen. .... odd, ok... something isn't acting right, it's going way to damn slow. So I go into Control Panel, System, and see if it's still running...

only just got around to really having a go using it and we've found it really quite slow. I'm just wondering if it is being this slow because of the small amount of RAM is has in it, only 512Mb. By slow I mean that Vista is running pretty damn slow. Just...

CD drive". This would definitely solve my speed problems, I think. What started me thinking is that I would like to play an old game which runs from CD, but is damn slow. Every time the scene changes, it loads a new song from the CD, and this takes long...

Still can't play. Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims () I am still having the birth crashes in my custom neighborhood (the only one I've been playing for the past several weeks). I have emailed Maxis back and forth, getting two replies and now dead...

make of this OS. Yeah, I find it real complicated, but that's OK. I'm still trying to find "My Computer", hehe. What I can't figure out is why it's so damn slow. Opening a folder or icon takes from 2 to 4 seconds, depending on what it is. Is 850MHz & 384MB...

Firewire drives into old Mac 9600?. Archived from groups: rec.audio.pro () Hi y'all, I keep having people wanting to bring over firewire drives with Protools sessions on them which they started elsewhere and want to continue working on at my house....