Laptop Question

by DomenicoF May 2, 2009 12:02PM PDT

Hi.
I have a fairly old Acer Travelmate 351TE featuring a Pentium 3 Processor 547MHz with 248MB of RAM with 8MB Integrated Graphics and a 9GB Hard Drive
I have two questions about this laptop.
First one is, is there any ways to save the battery life as the battery does not last very long while the system is on and second question is: what operating system would you recommend running on this machine (preferbly Windows). I currently have XP Professional SP3 on this machine.
thank you. dom.

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Two answers . . .

by Coryphaeus May 2, 2009 11:00PM PDT

First, batteries die. Period. Nothing you can do to prevent it. Nada.

Second. It's kind'a lean to run XP, but my question back is how does it run now with XP? If it really bogs down then W98 might be an option, or Linux of some flavor.

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XP runs OK

by DomenicoF May 3, 2009 6:50PM PDT

Hi.
XP runs ok on this machine, but is a bit slow at times.
Would you recommend turning anything off or changing anything to make it faster. If so, what should I do to xp to make it faster.
Thanks. dom.

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What Bob said . . .

by Coryphaeus May 3, 2009 10:29PM PDT

Get a faster hard drive, they do make a big difference. Run XP in lean mode, as in keep background programs to the minimum. Run a lean anti-virus program such as AVG.

XP is really a hog, that's why Microsoft has minimum requirements for it. You're barely there. You're just going to have to live with it.

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I had an all too similar model.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 3, 2009 12:44AM PDT

The acer ter600 ran ok with Windows 98 then Windows 2000. But the biggest bang for the buck was when I replaced it's dog slow hard disk with some 5400 RPM unit. The new 40GB drive dropped the Windows 2000 boot time from over 4 minutes to under 2.

As to the battery, you get a new one.
Bob

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