Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

[shovenose]

Re: Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

Alright here's a pic:

[shovenose]

Re: Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

Alright, meanwhile here is my other issue.
The screen is like lacking in color and has too little blue and too much green. Or something like that. I'll show y'all a pic in a minute...any idea what's causing this?
Thanks.

[shovenose]

Re: Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

IDK...Lol. I was thinking the same thing. I'm going to try it after I install all the drivers.

[pentium]

Re: Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

Can you not upgrade the memory on this thing?

[shovenose]

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I'm considering putting the 32GB SSD I have in my IBM ThinkPad X31 into the ToughBook...then it would be truly unbreakable :-)
But I'm only going to do that if I can get the other main issue I have with this computer fixed. I'll post that eventually.
Oh and now I uninstalled Comodo and I'm going to not have any anti-virus. I can already notice the speed difference,

[ratdude747]

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In a P-III laptop, 256mb was probably pretty generous from the factory. Especially in a toughbook, where the prices were already at a premium due to their ruggedized nature.

The 4200rpm drive is dragging you down, too... I don't think you'll get the performance you want out of it with that hardware combination.

agreed.

I would suggest an enclosure for the existing hdd (4200 rpm is good for enclosure use) and a 5400 rpm hdd to put in the laptop.

[dood]

Re: Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

In a P-III laptop, 256mb was probably pretty generous from the factory. Especially in a toughbook, where the prices were already at a premium due to their ruggedized nature.

The 4200rpm drive is dragging you down, too... I don't think you'll get the performance you want out of it with that hardware combination.

[shovenose]

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Yeah its a 40gb 4200rpm drive I stuck in there. Earlier I tried to uninstall my lovely Comoros but there was an error message so I think I'm stuck with it! I will try that defrag later, thank you.

[ratdude747]

Re: Panasonic Toughbook slow, messed up, etc.

strip comodo and use avast.

also, use auslogics defrag... after a lot of installs your hdd (which may be a slow 4200 RPM drive) may have fragments that can make or break your system. I actually had this happen with a dell latitude with a pentium M... and it had a 5400 RPM drive.

[shovenose]

First off, I have NO IDEA why anybody would sell a system new with ONLY 256MB of RAM!!! I mean of course I've seen it in Dells and Compaqa...but it's just utterly stupid.
Maybe back then SP1 of XP was less of a memory hog?
Anyway, I got a Toughbook CF-28 yesterday. It's got an 800MHz Pentium III and 256MB of RAM. and it's SLOW!!!
It was decent before I installed Firefox, Comodo Anti-Virus, Adobe reader, flash player, etc...
Now it's terrible.
I guess my question is what can I do to make it work with 256MB?