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Originally posted by Thermo
Well, we are starting to deploy some Dell D500 laptops here. PIIIm at 1.3GHz and 128megs of ram. Must say that after a half a day with one, I am not impressed at all. First thing I did was pull some updates off of the SUS server. It took forever to install them. I just did a batch of 2.4GHs towers last week and they did the same installs in a few minutes. I thing the accountants cut this spec back a little too far, when they trimmed the original order.
The Dell D500's are actually the P-M chips, not PIII-M chips. I think the performance bottleneck is the lack of ram. 128 is intolerable. I have 256 and its barely adequate. Fire whoever ordered them with that. 128-256mb more ram would have ran the "accountant" no more than $20-$50 a machine.(if ordered from a third party, $50-$100 if ordered from dell) The 1.3ghz P-M chips should run nearly equivalent to a P4 1.5-1.6ghz.