Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com> wrote: > It may be just the hard drive. Compaq has been using > ungodly slow Fujitsu 4200rpm drives of late. I experienced > a substantial speedup on mine when I upgraded to a Hitachi > Travelstar 7K100. Have to 2nd that note. Although the PowerNow!/Cool'n Quiet is having some effect, do _not_ expect desktop commodity/capacity disk performance out of a notebook HD. Even the 7200rpm notebook drives are still significantly slower than the 3.5" models. We're currently experimenting with a Mini-ITX i915/Pentium-M system in-house with a Seagate 7200rpm 2.5" notebook SATA drive to see if it can drive multiple streams of 720p multimedia. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)