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awf170

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ALLSKIING said:
A friend offered me an emachines with 2.6GHz 80GB 768MB of ram for $200. Should I take it? It will be replacing a Vaio 1.5 GHz 60GB 512MB ram.

can you translate that into english please :lol: :lol:
 

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New systems go for 500-600 now. The big question is: do you feel like going through the hassle of moving all your documents and e-mail settings and reinstalling all your applications for such a small jump in performance?

If your system is bogged down, I would spend $100 for a second hard drive, install it, move your documents and export your e-mail to it, then wipe out the original hard drive and start from scratch. I think you'll find the performance gain from removing the accumulated crap is well worth the $100 spent, not to mention you've got enough left for a week's worth of pizza.

Or 2 ski lift tickets.



-Stephen
 

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Stephen said:
New systems go for 500-600 now. The big question is: do you feel like going through the hassle of moving all your documents and e-mail settings and reinstalling all your applications for such a small jump in performance?

If your system is bogged down, I would spend $100 for a second hard drive, install it, move your documents and export your e-mail to it, then wipe out the original hard drive and start from scratch. I think you'll find the performance gain from removing the accumulated crap is well worth the $100 spent, not to mention you've got enough left for a week's worth of pizza.

Or 2 ski lift tickets.



-Stephen
I was told that the performance gain should be big due to the processor speeds more ram and a faster rpm that the hard drive would spin :-? Thats not true?
 
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