Re: [Thinkpad] 600X PIII-500 slower than PII-400?

There are MANY factors which effect speed. It may be a faster video card, a
faster hard drive (remember the ThinkPad has a 4200, your desktop is
probably at least 5400), more cache memory, lots of stuff!
----- Original Message -----
From: "James V. Bohen" <jbohen@compuserve.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] 600X PIII-500 slower than PII-400?

> I use a program called Info Select, which is a PIM and free-form database.
> I had been using it on a desktop computer, a Pentium II-400 with 256M RAM
> and a 6 gig hard drive. I recently acquired a Thinkpad 600X, Pentium
> III-500 with 256M RAM and a 20 gig hard drive. My Info Select program
runs
> noticeably slower on the Thinkpad. On the desktop, searching the database
> takes no more than a second, while on the Thinkpad it's 7 to 10 seconds.
Is
> there something about the 600X that I have not properly configured? It
> seems strange that the Pentium III-500 runs this program slower than a
> Pentium II-400. Thanks.
>
> Jim Bohen
>
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