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My dear wife wants my laptop as hers died the proper death. All is fine but Farmville and similar are very very slow to load and play. 768mb ram, ubuntu 10.10, 40gb hdd. Would buying a ssd make it faster?
Probably more likely RAM/CPU limited, most games (inc. browser-based) only spend a fraction of the time accessing disk so it might load up quicker initially with an SSD but once you're in the game you likely won't notice much difference (I recently bought a gaming PC with an SSD system drive but I run games from the SATA drive). If you're buying a new laptop you'll want something with at least 2GB and an i3 CPU (£400+), stretching the budget further would get a dedicated GPU (although not sure how much that would help with Farmville). If you can't stretch to a new laptop then I'd upgrade the memory before adding an SSD.
I won't be buying another laptop anytime soon. No funds as a new bike is far more important.
The laptop memory is an expensive one as 2GB of PC2700 is some £50. I am also unsure if it'd take it, it struggled with 2x512MB when I checked.
The D600 can take 2GB of memory in total ie 2x1GB chips, you can't stick 1 2GB chip in there so it is more than 50£ but it is a better investment than a 100£ SSD. Having said that the Processor on those machines was quite weak as well so don't expect miracles whatever you do to it.
Thanks, I get it now.
Having said that, Ubuntu is very low resource and I've been told FV should work fine. All other things work perfectly well TBH. Even FV works now, but it's very slow to load, that'd be the memory, correct?
What Vrapan said. You're looking at 2x 1Gb sticks, max. DDR2700 SODIMMs.
Under XP, I'd definitely upgrade it. With Linux I'm less sure about system requirements. Can't hurt though.
What's FV use as its engine, is it Flash based? Have you got the latest version of Flash, latest video drivers and all that? (I've got an early EEE running Linux and the video performance was absolutely shocking until I got a decent graphics driver on it).
£35 for a gig stick at [url= http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-corsair-value-select-ddr-so-dimm-pc2700-%28333%29-200-pin-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-25-3-3-7 ]Scan[/url].
What I might be tempted to do as a compromise if budget's an issue, is to buy one stick and replace the existing 256Mb part, effectively doubling your RAM for half the outlay.
You might get 10-15 quid back for the old 256 on ebay if you're lucky too.
What's up with the 'dead' laptop, incidentally?
Cougar's idea is good actually, no need to splash out on 2GB on that machine and you do gain half a gig of memory for a bit over 30£ - if you shop around you might find it cheaper than £35.
Also if it is an online game loading might have to do with your connection? If it is a flash based game downloading the latest flash player as suggested by Cougar might also help and you could give a go at a different browser.
The laptop, Lenovo 3000 n200, doesn't boot up, doesn't even begin to run, nothing happens when you press the on/off button. Not even a single LED is on. Had it diagnosed by several people and they all say it's the MB. I'm collecting it later today probably and with a meter and a bit of common sense will try to see what's wrong.
The connection is definitely a bit of an issue - up to 3MB on a good day. Her old laptop dealt with it no problem but 2gb ram and core2duo instead of 768mb and pentium m make hell of a difference.
