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Vaio SZ Laptop - Slow with Vista and 7 - faster HDD??
My 2 year old Vaio SZ laptop became fairly sluggish with Vista so I have recently tried Windows 7 - and I'm just not finding it much faster! Also due to no Sony driver support it also freezes at times.
I think though I have identified the bottleneck, the HDD. The 5200Rpm Toshiba drive hits about 44 MB/s in HD Tune and for not much more money one can pick up a drive the hits 80 Mb/s now!
I was considering installing XP but on realising this I'm willing to bet a clean Vista install on a new HDD will be a major improvement, with the OS differences being minimal.
What do you think?