Portege R700 - quick as lightning!

Despite some reports of 'flaky' and similar operation, I decided to tear off my HARD drive and slap a SSD and W7 Pro 64 bit on my portege R700-184

flippin heck its the thing to the top fast!

I used a base of sandforce OCZ Vertex 2 120 GB drive and the Retail Media to install the 64-bit windows. It's with any other firmware or software update for the SSD or Laptop, so right on the box

Before starting from cold to 95 seconds, down to 23 seconds on the SSD used! and he wakes up from his sleep in 4 seconds! VERY impressed!

Similarly the 64-bit operating system has improved my WEI scores the CPU is 6.5 to 6.9, the RAM of 5.4 to 5.9 and obviously the SSD took a hard drive of 5.9 to a burning 7.4 :-)

excellent upgrade in the embryonic stages, I will present long-term stable after that I have all my drivers and running upward and restore my files!

Ben

Post edited by: 1994F7PT

> I decided to rip off my HARD drive and hit a SSD and W7 Pro 64 bit on my Portege R700-184

I have improved ever one of my laptops with an SSD, but according to your post, this should improve the performance of cell phone lot to known this thanks for sharing this info!

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