[BNM] Laptop recommendation

[Michael Rose]

Yep. Same with ASUS.

First thing I did when it came out the box was
Start-Run-msconfig-'disable all startup items'.

Halved the boot time.

ASUS only gave a "restore disk" but last time I reinstalled I managed to
get a vanilla-xp reinsall. 

S'nice


M.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org 
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks
> Sent: 04 February 2008 11:00
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Laptop recommendation
> 
> That is so true.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org 
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dan Eastwell
> Sent: 04 February 2008 10:55
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Laptop recommendation
> 
> Yeah, that was the problem with my Acer - imperfect though XP 
> is, you get hardware vendors who think they can play OS 
> developer and 'improve' on native utilities. What you end up 
> with is, of course, incompatibilities with the OS, frequent 
> crashes and useless hogging of the processor.
> 
> On 2/4/08, Chris Billett <chris at chrisbillett.net> wrote:
> >
> > > What do you use instead? I'm assuming thinkvantage is the default 
> > > onboard wireless driver? Doesn't XP/Vista come with 
> generic wireless 
> > > drivers?
> >
> > We have a lot of Thinkpads too, running Windows 2000. It is a 
> > nightmare, to say the least, getting wireless to play nice. 
> As others 
> > have said, the rest of the hardware is pure gold (our only 
> issues come 
> > with w2k drivers for newer hardware on T43/60/61 machines) but 
> > ThinkVantage should be purged as soon as you get your 
> grubby mitts on 
> > the machine*. Hardware = good, software = bad. Go for a 
> vanilla copy 
> > of XP on them and you're laughing.
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