Hello Ian,

Friday, April 19, 2002, 12:06:42 PM, you wrote:

I> A customer asked me to look at her Acer Travelmate 507DX laptop, which she
I> says is running way too slow.

I> Now, I'm not too familiar with laptops, and I have no idea just how quick
I> this thing should go.

I> It's a Celeron 466 with 32Mb ram and a coupla gigs free HDD space. I'm
I> running it on mains power.

Mobile Celerons differ from Desktop ones in power dissipation only (as
I know).

I> Should this machine run as fast as it's desktop equivalent, all other things
I> being equal?

This depends on OS installed on laptop.

I> Or are laps generally slower than desks? This sure is a plodder. I've
I> checked it for viri and tho it's had Magistr, there's none still active.
I> TIA
 Slower/faster are subjective parameters wich requires comparison.

I> PS. To give an idea of the speed of this machine, I loaded FProt via DOS,
I> started a scan, then went to bed and left it going.

I> When I returned to it in the morning, it reported proudly that the scan was
I> finished - after 429 minutes :--))

Try SiSoftSandra 2000 (or 2001) to compare with desktops.

General: I don't know how MacOS is degraded with progs, but in the
case Win9x/or Win2k try to reinstall them (however the driver's
problem for hardware?).

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 Yakymakha

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