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My 7100 - slow as molasses?!?!?
Got 7100 loaded on the desktop - runs tight and fast, I like it a lot.
Put it on my Dell The laptop - ugh. Takes 2 minutes and 23 seconds from when I turn it on to when it's ready to go. Desktop takes a fraction of that, it's not even close.
My desktop and laptop are roughly the same in specs, except (and I know this is a big exception) the laptop uses a Centrino Duo, desktop has AMD 64 AthlonX2. Otherwise - same memory (3GB), laptop has a faster hard drive but a smaller size. Video card in the laptop is slightly better. Both machines are a couple years old.
Both machines used to run XP, and both loaded XP about the same. 7 loads a lot faster on the desktop, but way slower than XP on my laptop.
Is the CPU the major factor here?