Posts by Rao Hamid

I put in another 256mb Ram chip, it has made a big difference, the laptop is a lot more zippy now.

Stu- so what you're saying is that everything should work fine provided I find where the RAM slots are, that makes me happy. Thanks.

I wanted to ask if it is possible to take out a 256MB chip of RAM from my 8600 and put it in my R51. Will that create any major issues? I want to do this because I am not allowed to use my 8600 at work, its a personal laptop, and the...

I have thought of that, but do you think this is just a RAM issue? Provided that I don't have a virus/spyware on my laptop, does the IBM software slow down the PC?

I have an IBM R51 laptop. It seems to be incredibly slow most of the time. Is it because of all the preloaded software IBM packages it with? I also have a Dell 8600 and it zips through anything I throw at it, albeit, the Dell has better...

The Acer screen looks like it's brighter, but the colors seem like they're a little off.

I have just obtained my second notebook courtesy of my employer. Looking at the add/remove programs tab in the Control Panel makes me freak out. There is so much software installed by IBM, which do you all keep, which do you all...

What are you talking about. Sure it can. Right click desktop, settings, advanced, color, and there you have it.... contrast. Can't see why you'd want to change it, since it really is already set very well on default.

and thats on a P4 architecture??!

I use MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) and have no issues whatsoever, just wish I could somehow configure it to use my Yahoo! email.