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

NB: I haven't actually had a chance to try this myself, but I've repeatedly
heard (including from the Windows Activation people)...

If you purchase a laptop with some version of Vista, you should have a Vista
key sticker on it.

If you swap in a new hard drive, you can use the Anytime disk to install the
same version of Vista and enter your key (you'll then have to activate it,
unless you also saved the "hidden" key from Lenovo).

Also note -- I'm not talking about the Vista Anytime web site -- I'm taking
about the Vista Anytime disk.

Let me know if that wasn't clear -- I spent a lot of time looking into this,
and I'm happy to share what I've learned... ;)

-Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stockler" <bobstockler@netzero.net>
To: <scott@turnstyle.com>
Cc: <canyonlands@gmail.com>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>;
<b3i4old02@sneakemail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: 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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>
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