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Old 01-16-2008, 08:46 PM
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I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4807 with an AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core processor. The machine is running 2048 GB DDR2 SDRAM (4096 GB capable) and Windows Vista Home Premium. It still runs sluggish even with 2 gigs of RAM. Can you say memory hog? The only option to get this machine to run Vista better would be to max out the RAM. Where is the best place to buy RAM cheap?
BTW, one thing that sometimes makes notebook computers sluggish is the hard drive. The access and transfer speed on the factory hdd is usually pretty slow. You can gain a pretty significant performance boost by upgrading your hdd to a 7200rpm notebook drive. It's a little more involved than upgrading RAM but it's not much more expensive.
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