most imporant component for speed and load?

[Bashar]

Hello,
im buying a new laptop and my current hangs alot especially when i open thunderbird or firefox with high usage because my mailbox is large and i'm a heavy browsing user

i was thinking to buy the lenovo X300 but due its low processor would this effect me ? or the cache of the processor and the 4GB ram would handle the job?

or should i go for the lenovo W500 for the better bus speed and better processor ?

Thank you.

[Puppy]

Well written and optimized code of the application (which is not the case) The "brute-force" solution is to get faster HDD in the first place and a lot of RAM.

I have over 60 000 emails in my Outlook Express 6 and it opens within three seconds on my old X31. IE7 opens in one second. No problems so far.

[Bashar]

so 4GB ram and SSD disk on X300 or W500 would do the job ?

which would be faster ? the X300 or W500 if i match the disk/ram ?

[awolfe63]

W500 is at least twice as fast - but it may not matter. Email and browsing speed tends to be limited by the network, not the computer.

[akao]

Applications open faster on my X300 (3GB) than on my desktop (Q6600, 4GB, 7200RPM). The SSD does wonders for start times.

[Supermans]

I ordered an X200 with the 64GB SSD and 2GB of ram on 2 dimm's. Since the ram is DDR3 which is faster than the X300's DDR2 and the FSB speed is 1066 while the X300's is 667.. I would suspect the X200 will be even faster which is great news for me since my last laptop is a five year old Toshiba which still works by the way..

[awolfe63]

DDR3 DRAM makes very little difference. DRAM latency is still about the same and few applications require the extra peak bandwidth. The big advantage of switching from DDR2 is that the signaling voltages are lower thus some power is saved.