My Laptop (HP OmniBook 4150)

[CptSiskoX]

My laptop

About a month ago I got my first laptop. It is an HP OmniBook 4150 (128 MB of RAM, 300 MHz, 6 gig hard drive). It's by far not the most powerful or recent laptop available <grin> but it gets the job done. It's run Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation), Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP all on it successfully without any problems. Last night I formatted and did a fresh install of Windows XP Home Edition (I have Pro also but chose to use Home on it). In the past I had WinXP Pro on it and it worked fine also. I recently used the laptop to do my Windows 9x/ME Tweak Guide ( http://members.fortunecity.com/computingx ). Windows XP Home Edition is on it now as I said, and running quite well. It is slightly sluggish at times, but not that bad. It runs very stable and reliably. I am impressed despite the slight performance barriers, but it isn't bothersome. It runs everything I throw at it just fine, even some games I've tried. It's really nice to be able to have the portability if I want/need it. And besides, laptops are just sexy, somehow. :grinthumb

 

[svtcobra]

If you want to get rid of that sluggishness that you speak of, put another 128mb of memory in it. WinXP requires 128mb and recommends 256mb. That will help out alot.

 

[CptSiskoX]

If I had a free 128 MB laying around I would <grin>. I know the more RAM the better with WinXP especially. My desktop has 512 MB.

 

[svtcobra]

I just ordered another 256 for my laptop from crucial. I have been watching the price continue to climb and I figured I would do it now before it got out of hand.

 

[Arris]

Considering for win2000 its recommended that you have a machine with at least 300Mhz processor with 128mb of ram I ain't surprised that you find your occasionally hitting a performance barrier

 

[Th3M1ghtyD8]

My PC takes around 140Mb just to get off the ground with WinXP.

This is a bare system - the only things running are tweakxp and a couple of things in the systray.

 

[Arris]

I have Sophos running in the system tray and I swear that my Dell 7000 366Mhz machine takes at least 5 mins to start up from cold!!

 

[Elcarion]

My main PC at work was an HP Omnibook 4150 until about 6 months ago. I had unacceptable performance running Win2K with 128MB RAM and Lotus Notes. The main problem was that Lotus uses a minimum of 30MB of RAM which leaves about 20MB free for everything else...If you can find RAM for a good price, go for it.