I ended up passing on Turbo Memory. Most seem to say that it provides
modest, if any, boost, and some have had nasty crashes -- the crashes are
supposedly addressed by getting an updated driver, and the performance
benefits may be improved with later versions of Vista -- so that all just
didn't seem worth it to me. PLUS you can get some of the benefits of Turbo
Memory by using an SD card (I may be using the wrong card name there).
As for RAM and HD, I decided to get Thinkpad minimum factory defualts, and
buy the RAM and HD elsewhere. I price shopped a bit, and got 1GB from NewEgg
for ~$25 and a 100GB Hitachi 7K200 from ZipZoomFly for ~$100 (NewEgg seems
to have pricey shipping, but I was getting other stuff too -- ZipZoomFly was
free shipping).
Getting a new/extra drive costs about the same as upgrading the default (in
some cases, it's less) -- I plan on using the Vista Anytime Upgrade disk
(supposed to come with the TP) to install Vista on the new drive.
(I don't have the laptop or RAM/HD yet, so hopefully all goes well... ;)
-Scott
> Scott Matthews wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm trying to configure a new Thinkpad, and was hoping some here
> > could help with two questions:
>
> I would also love to have the answers to these questions, if anyone has
> ideas.
>
> > 1) Is Turbo Memory worth having (fwiw, it'll probably be a 2GB RAM
> > system) -- some people claim a solid boost in performance, others say
little
> > difference, and some say they get blue screens -- does anybody here have
> > Turbo Memory in a Thinkpad? If so, what do you think?
> >
> > 2) The current drive selection is:
> > 80GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm Serial ATA (2.5")
> > 120GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm Serial ATA (2.5") [add $26.25]
> > 100GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm Serial ATA (2.5") [add $60.00]
> > 160GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm Serial ATA (2.5") [add $60.00]
> > 160GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm with Disk Encryption [add $97.50]
> > 160GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm [add $135.00]
> > 200GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm with Disk Encryption [add $285.00]
> >
> > I like the idea of getting a faster 7200rpm, but there has been a fair
> > amount of chatter on the list about trouble with 7200rpm drives. Are
7200rpm
> > drives too failure prone? Do they get much hotter/noisier than the
5400rpm
> > drives? Lastly, do the reliability/heat/noise differ by drive size? (for
> > example, is 100GB 7200rpm ok whereas 160GB 7200rpm is a common
> > troublemaker?)
>
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