Re: [Thinkpad] New Thinkpad -- help with turbo memory & driveselection ...

I just visited the Vista Anytime web site, and the way I read it was
that the upgrade had to be done on the disk on which Windows Vista was
already installed (IOW, no fresh install on a virgin disk).

Bob Stockler

-- "Scott Matthews" <scott@turnstyle.com> wrote:
I'm getting it with Vista Business, but I'm then going to request the
free-ish XP Professional "downgrade" -- so I'll have both.

I'm assuning that it ships with the Vista Anytime disk, so I should be able
to use that to perform a clean Vista install on a new drive. If I don't like
Vista, I can downgrade back to XP Pro. (and, if I don't like that, I can put
on Win2k... ;)

I'm not suggesting that anybody upgrade, I'm just saying that I took my new
TP with Vista, and there's an almost-free switch to XP, and I can
clean-install Vista to a new drive via the Anytime disk. And I'm kind of
interested in just looking at Vista.

-Scott

> We will be interested in your experiences with the VISTA Anytime disk and
> install. Our experiences with installing it on Dell, Sony, and HP laptops
> has been very negative
>
> I still do not see any good reason to upgrade to Vista from WXPP... Even
> with Service Pack 2... and the problems for us have been more pronounced
on
> laptops.
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2007 5:45 AM, Scott Matthews <scott@turnstyle.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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