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  • shovenose
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    • Aug 2010
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    Re: AMD CPU's biz has gone into a death spiral...

    Originally posted by Evil Lurker
    Got a Lenovo Edge 15 with core i3-390M, 6gb ram, 250gb hd, so on and so forth.

    It is pretty darn nice, although I wish it was sandy bridge. The hard drive is slooow though, has a 5400rpm WD Scorpio Blue in it.

    I want to boost the ram to 8gb, set up a ramdrive, start using firefox and cache all my temp files in ram, and finally switch over to a SSD drive.

    Figure that ought to make it fairly decent.

    And oh yeah, I got about $150 in my laptop since I bought it off a methhead looking to get high (needed a charger, let walmart rip me a new one).
    Yeah mine's got a WD Blue 5400RPM in it too...I think that's why it takes like 20 minutes to boot up (slight exaggeration there)... I'm going to replace with an SSD in a year or so...

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