My girlfriend has a P2110 that she bought when she lived in Singapore. She doesn't use it. Lately it was only used when I went on vacation to store digital photos. I shoot thousands of photos (in larger RAW format, not .jpg) and I use the Lifebook to store, view and delete the files. I find that the 20 GB hard-drive is too small for the volume of photos I take during the 5 weeks I am away (I usually go to exotic places like India, Ethiopia, Yemen, Thailand).
Recently I installed an Internet router and have bought a wireless adapter so we can use the Lifebook for internet browsing. I updated it to the XP Service pack 2, installed Comodo firewall and free AVG AV and have noticed the machine crawls slooooowly. So I am thinking of upgrading the Lifebook but wonder if it isn't just better more cost effective to buy new laptop.
Is there a decent RAM configurator that will tell me what type of RAM to buy? Will this be ancient museum RAM that would be expensive/hard to find? I think my P-2110 has 240 MB of RAM. Will I buy a new stick or have to replace the one I have?
Is there a known problem with this ancient laptop and XP SP2? Why has it slowed to a crawl? I tried to defrag and it took 30 minutes just to get 15% of the way to a full defrag using DiskLite. Or should I should restore XP to before the SP2 as I am surfing only through a protected WPA secure router?
Is there a special Hard Disk that I need to get? I know with desktops that the current drives are SATA2 - I have never owned a laptop and am not sure if just any laptop HD would be compatible with the P2110.
Also the USB port is USB 1.0. As I use it to download 8 GBs of photos at a time I would like USB 2.0 upgrade so I don't have to wait 30 minutes each evening when I download the RAW digital files. Is this possible? Is there a PCI card that I'd need for this?
Also the battery is old and fully charged only lasts a bit over 1 hour. So a new battery is essential. Are the different classes/types of laptop batteries and if so which ones are compatible with the P2110.
Also, is there a database/configurator that answers all of these questions lest you think I am too demanding/lazy??
So the bigger question would be is it even cost efficient to bother with all these upgrades? I have no idea what the cost of all these upgrades would be. Would you suggest I just buy a new laptop? And if so, does this P2110 still have any resale value? For example, are there P2110 cultists absolutely enamoured with the thing that would pay big bucks for the screen/body/power supply?
There you have it…a longwinded post by someone who knows little about laptops. ANY advice or recommendations about the situation I have described above would be greatly and sincerely appreciated. I thank all sincere and helpful posts in advance!
Recently I installed an Internet router and have bought a wireless adapter so we can use the Lifebook for internet browsing. I updated it to the XP Service pack 2, installed Comodo firewall and free AVG AV and have noticed the machine crawls slooooowly. So I am thinking of upgrading the Lifebook but wonder if it isn't just better more cost effective to buy new laptop.
Is there a decent RAM configurator that will tell me what type of RAM to buy? Will this be ancient museum RAM that would be expensive/hard to find? I think my P-2110 has 240 MB of RAM. Will I buy a new stick or have to replace the one I have?
Is there a known problem with this ancient laptop and XP SP2? Why has it slowed to a crawl? I tried to defrag and it took 30 minutes just to get 15% of the way to a full defrag using DiskLite. Or should I should restore XP to before the SP2 as I am surfing only through a protected WPA secure router?
Is there a special Hard Disk that I need to get? I know with desktops that the current drives are SATA2 - I have never owned a laptop and am not sure if just any laptop HD would be compatible with the P2110.
Also the USB port is USB 1.0. As I use it to download 8 GBs of photos at a time I would like USB 2.0 upgrade so I don't have to wait 30 minutes each evening when I download the RAW digital files. Is this possible? Is there a PCI card that I'd need for this?
Also the battery is old and fully charged only lasts a bit over 1 hour. So a new battery is essential. Are the different classes/types of laptop batteries and if so which ones are compatible with the P2110.
Also, is there a database/configurator that answers all of these questions lest you think I am too demanding/lazy??
So the bigger question would be is it even cost efficient to bother with all these upgrades? I have no idea what the cost of all these upgrades would be. Would you suggest I just buy a new laptop? And if so, does this P2110 still have any resale value? For example, are there P2110 cultists absolutely enamoured with the thing that would pay big bucks for the screen/body/power supply?
There you have it…a longwinded post by someone who knows little about laptops. ANY advice or recommendations about the situation I have described above would be greatly and sincerely appreciated. I thank all sincere and helpful posts in advance!
