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thanks again masseur!
I will do some reading and thinking!
Disc Cleanup on the c:/ is taking a while ! So maybe when I do the d:/ next, then defrag, I will notice the difference !
hi paul101 !
c:/ has 15.4 gb in use and 3.21 gb free
d:/ has 14.8 gb in use and 36.4 gb free
Ofiaich
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[ This Message was edited by: ofiaich on 2009-02-02 19:52 ]
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Posted: 2009-02-02 20:47:42
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hi!
just to update! After doing the clean up and de-frag, new figures are
c:/ has 12.3 gb in use and 6.26 gb free
d:/ has 11.0 gb in use and 40.2 gb free
VAIO seems faster now but will check for other programmes that are not needed tomorrow, and will uninstall them.
thanks to all!
Ofiaich
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Posted: 2009-02-03 01:13:50
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Ouch! Thats a teeny tiny hard drive...
Thats Sony for you I suppose, rip off as usual...
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Posted: 2009-02-03 08:23:42
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@ofiaich
I prefer to use CCleaner to clean up the drives, it's very quick and customiseable although I just leave it on the default settings and it does a great job.
I had my previous computer for nearly 4 years and it was getting very slow. Using CCleaner I got rid of 4GB of unnecessary junk, and regular defrag's got the 40GB hard drive fragmented zones down to almost nothing. Processing speed improved markedly.
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Posted: 2009-02-03 09:33:56
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@Daedalus85!
Yes, it is a small hard drive but this notebook is quite a few years old ! I remember buying it on the 14th August, 2006!
I think it was £1499 - £1699 when first released in the UK!!
@carkitter!
thanks for this information! I will give it these a try.
I would think there is no point to put Windows Vista on it?
Ofiaich
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Posted: 2009-02-03 10:48:02
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...yes, Vaio T series isn't about hard drive size(although the current Vaio TT's have the largest possible SSD of any ultra portable at the moment: 256GB
), it's about performance to portability ratio, and in that, they score well......
@Ofiaich, Vista=No no...I'd have thought these guys would have advised Win 7 over that(although it's not official yet, is it??)! And a damn nice machine, regardless(I believe you could get TX5's outside of Japan, not an exact spec match though)......
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Posted: 2009-02-03 10:58:28
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Hi Aware,
hope you are well!
I have been clearly told. via PM, forget Vista for this machine! Cycovision, as always helped me with quick and excellent advice !
I might actually sell this, spare original battery, long life battery, carrying case! but OS is Japanese. I guess that would be easy for you techy guys to sort out and installing an English OS would be easy for you ! Interested, Aware ?
I can then get myself another model whilst I am in Japan in March!
Ofiaich
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Posted: 2009-02-03 11:06:44
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Meh, I'm more than happy with mine, its only 'portable' in the sense it's still a laptop, and will go in a bag, but I'd rather have a big one anyway.
17" widescreen, AMD Athlon 64 X2 1.7Ghz, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD, large-ish battery, DVD-rewriter, NVidia 7100M (rather than some naff Intel one), plays World of Warcraft just fine and is as quick as lightning for the Internet and other day to day tasks...was a smidge under £280 back in September
Now thats what I call performance to price ratio
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Posted: 2009-02-03 22:40:53
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@Ofiaich...many thanks for the offer(and also our conversation!:) ), however, on reflection a couple of things(i.e: tablet specs) mean it's not quite for me, unfortunately......
A big shame, as I've always wanted a 'T'(dribble)...but I need at least TX91 processor etc(pref. TZ's Dual core ones), if I'm not to take a technically backwards step from what I currently have!
@James, all very well chap...but just like phones(e.g: i8510, or N85?? ), you can't have proper portability, and uber-hardware in the same machine -well, not at reasonable prices, anyway! Your 'beast' is probably ~3kilos, whereas all T series are ~
1...yup, about the same as a bag of sugar - now that's portability......
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Posted: 2009-02-04 12:01:53
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Thats fair enough, and for people who need to put one in their pocket/handbag/whereever, then thats fine
I use mine as my main PC these days, so I need a big screen and full keyboard
Although, I still dont quite justify anything over £1000 on a laptop when in 3 years time it'll be either defunkt or slow and out of date
Hence why my sub-£300 will last well for a few years yet
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Posted: 2009-02-04 12:05:22
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