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  3. December 2005

Re: Laptop suggestion ? (Colin Williams)

My experience is a bit mixed.  Having followed suggestions from some time
back to make sure 1GB of memory was installed I bought what I thought was
a fairly powerful Dell Inspiron 9300

The laptop is a Pentium M 1.73GHz, 533FSB with 1GB of Ram. The disk is
80GB  (4,200 RPM) and graphics card 128MB RADEON X300.

It now seems that the holy grail of Ram is only one of many things required
and for me begs the question as to why IBM do not themselves clearly define
specifications needed for using the tools. I don't just mean minimum requirements 
for loading it - but actually using it...Or have I missed it?
For example...I have recently been trying to use the Java visual editor an it performs incredibly badly. Up to five minutes I have to wait if I drag a panel across the screen, 
before I can do anything else.

Am I to believe I should now go and get a disk upgrade?

I am sorry if this doesn't help but I felt like a moan :)

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