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SamuelLooney

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January 2nd, 2008 22:00

XPS M1210

I purchased the XPS M1210. It has a gig of ram, geforce 9700 vid card, Duo core T5200 with Vista home OS. Every since I purchased this computer it has been slower than my old HP 166 Mhz desktop. Everytime I open a program I get the hour glass for at least 10 seconds. I have defragged, performed disk clean up, reformatted etc... and still have very slow performance. Does anyone know if I can install XP 64 bit windows on it? I feel like Vista is a resource hog and is causing my problems. I do web design and programming so I need to have several large programs open at once. My old AMD Duron laptop was faster than this notebook. Anyone with any suggestions?
Thanks,
Sam

dgkpcon

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January 3rd, 2008 00:00

You are going to need at least 2gb ram if you want vista to run smoothly.As vista is a resource hog it requires at least 2gb and you should be o.k.

yeahright77

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January 3rd, 2008 13:00

Hey I just recently purchased a Dell XPS M1210 myself recently. I've installed 4GB of ram in my machine and for a while I also experienced a little bit of a "lag", but then I defrag the machine using the Vista disk defragmenter and it was good to go. I agree with the above post that you need at least 2 GB of ram in order to get things to run "smoothly". You can try and max out to 4GB, but just to warn you, your OS most likely won't recognize all 4GB. My OS only recognizes 3325MB of ram and only utilizes that much. Good luck!

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