SCR wrote:
If you really want to speed up a computer install a Solid State Drive. I hear they boot in about 10 to 15 seconds or less. Then again how fast do you need a computer to boot? The more you spend and tweak the faster the boot.
No not 10 to 15 sec, but more like 3 to 5 sec for a SSD to do a full boot up to Win 7 Pro. Toshiba also offers a lot of Win 7 machines. One thing that is getting harder is finding machines that allow user access to the memory and Hard Drives. In the Toshiba line up only the Tecra 50 series now has that level of accessibility.
For my last two laptops I get them with a fairly large HD but don't pay extra for larger drives and a CD/DVD drive and first thing I do is clone the factory drive to my Samsung SSD. I then replace the OEM drive after I have installed one program on it ... Acronis with the cloned SSD and load whatever programs I have/need to that. I then replace my CD/DVD with a Hard drive tray adapter and put the OEM drive in that and partition it with a large portion available for storing periodic Acronis backups done on the current running SSD. That way I have at all time a second bootable HD with capability of restoring to what ever drive I have in the main slot in the machine the current or any backup verion of my working system and programs drive.
Larry
