On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:37:54 -0500 Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [Open Office loading slow on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop] > 90 to 101 seconds from a cold start on my 600 MHZ Celeron Dell 4000 > Inspiron with gaim, evolution and Firefox running in other windows . > Yes, DMA is on. Under 50 seconds on that old Thinkpad 240 I mentioned. What kind of speeds do you get from hdparm -t -T ? Having evolution and firefox open at the same time alomg with KDE or Gnome on your 128 MB machine probably hurt some, but the sub-50-second time was on a computer running at 200 MHz on battery power, too. (And that was from a fresh start, no openoffice in cache). With that model of laptop, though, you should be able to both add a faster disk and more RAM. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
