Yes. I see degraded performance on the laptop and i totally understand that would cause latency in any heavily disk bound applications. However, i am not sure how it will affect the loading of application(s) and desktop navigation in general. Srikanth Oliver Schulze L. wrote: > Maybe the problem is the hard disk performance, do a quick check with: > hdparm -t /dev/sda > > twice(because of caching) in each PC anc compare > > HTH > Oliver >