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Should I Retire My Laptop?


My laptop’s condition lately is being less than I expected. It hangs a lot especially when I use many programs on background. Mind you, I’m using 1GB of RAM so I don’t think not enough physical memory is the problem in this case. My main suspicion lies in the inefficiencies of some of the program. Firefox for example is taking more than a 100MB of physical memory even if I only open 5 tabs. Yahoo Messenger eats more than 40MB even if I put it on idle.

The only thing I can do now is reformat the laptop and reinstall everything back to get a fresh performance from this baby. This of course holds its own problem (just like anyone that’s reinstalling their work PC/laptop), I have to back up most of my installations and my files (which is quite a lot) and re-arrange it after I finish reinstalling.

With the deadline for magazine nearing and deadline for my final paper ending, this is of course a no no. I’m thinking of retiring this laptop and replace it with a brand new MacBook or MacBook Pro (of course I’m paying it by monthly payment, don’t have that much of cash right now). What do you think?

Here she is, the one that serves me faithfully in the last 1 year…

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haha ke milis id-apple aja, tanya2 tuh ada yang bisa Adira Finance ada yang terima Cicilan BCA….

yay! Mac Switcher! Hoping to see some serious review in Apps for monitoring the Stock in Mac!

Well you could use a 3rd party program for yahoo IM which takes less memory….I haven’t noticed FF takes up that much memory myself but usually it’s not that much and I always have a ton of tabs open. I wonder if you have some system programs running that don’t need to be.

wah, saya liat tuh laptop udah termasuk usang, jadi sebaiknya diganti saja,,

btw, themesnya ngikut alistapart ya

Go here and sign up and post all your problems… I have been there for more than two years and we have some good Techs that can help you get it back to normal if that is possible…

http://forums.g4tv.com/categories.cfm?catid=64&zb=1490494

You can also do the same here, BT has alot of good Techs also…

http://www.besttechie.net/forums/

@Hanindyo: I think I’ll mostly use Parallel if I migrate to Apple. There’s no software for stock market as powerful as Metastock and the likes I think ;)

@Blueyes: I’m using GAIM now, sometimes meebo to lighten the burden. And Firefox 2 does indeed have a memory leak problem. I think I’ll go back to Firefox 1.5 for the time being.

@irfani: Hahaha, gw suka bahasa lo :P. Dibilang ngikutin engga juga sih karena gw belom pernah ke sono, baru pas udah diimplementasi banyak yang bilang mirip. Yo wes ndak opo lah hehehe

@Keith: thanks for the link ;)

YAP! Satu hal yang gw benci ama FF ya boros memori :D. Mungkin gak ampe 100 mb kali yah, andaikan gw gak install banyak extension.

Hmm, it’s weird, laptopnya br 1 tahun, 1 GB pula.. tapi tetep hang??? Laptop sayah 500-an mb, udah bertahan ampe 3 tahun malah (it’s weird that i can keep it for long). Eh, tapi gw selalu re-install ulang setiap 6 bulan sekali or so… I also use FreeRAM XP Pro to free up the memory everytime it’s almost ‘dying’.. get it from download.com.

Is your laptop suffered from overheating problem?? Coz it happened with my laptop.. It used to hang a lot. It always brought up the blue screen (of death?). I had to replace my hard disk because of the heat problem… :( Now I have the additional fan (cooling system???) and it never hang again.

I think The best thing you do:
1. Buy a new harddisk
2. Buy an external harddisk case
Put your old harddisk on the case and make a fresh installation. No need to backup you files :) just install your most needed application and do the other later on.

@amellie: Mungkin gara2 extension yang gw install banyak kali ya? Tapi yang pasti emang FF2 itu ada memory leak.

Sebenarnya bukan hang sih, tapi freeze (loh kok?). Jadi yang hang pun program2 tertentu saja (contoh: Firefox). Dan pas di cek kemarin fragmentasinya emang udah cukup parah :(. Gw udah setahun nih belom pernah diinstall ulang.

And no overheating I think

@Irwin: Well I already think of that when I first installed this laptop, but somehow I forgot to image it using Norton Ghost. Infact, I already partitioned the harddisk into two partition so fresh install is not a problem. It’s just that it will consume so many times that ticks me off…

Hmm… saatnya cari Adik mas… ambil MacBook atau MacBook Pro sekalian… trus MAXIMALkan RAMnya…. biar mantap…

Dilihat dari Scren Shoot itu belum Wide yaa?? lempar aja mas…. ayoo pindah ke Mac

*kompor mode on :D

Sometimes “cleaning” helps. Use CCleaner and/or RegSeeker for that, after that do a full disk defragmentation.

[...] And when the market opened with a higher gap yesterday, I know that the plunge made by many indexes in the Asia region is just a panic sell. However, greed takes me over. As you may know, I currently need money to buy a new laptop and I can’t loose any more money or else I won’t but to scrap pretty much anything. [...]

I would highly recommend switching to a Mac. Trust me, it’ll make your life so much easier.

I don’t think you should scrap it. You just need to give it some love.

I’d recommend you go to http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html and follow this very comprehensive and useful guide.

You’ll soon find it running a lot better and it costs you nothing.

Wow, asyikk bentar lagi pakai Mac ni’ yee..Wah kapan yah gw menyusul…;)

hmm kalau pakai pc, utk msgr saya pakai Trillian Pro :)

iya tuh kalau pakai pararels/coherence + metastock manteb banget apalagi kalau memori ditambah lebih oke lagi dungs

Komputer yang telah lama digunakan memuat banyak catatan registry termasuk sampai yang ditinggalkan program yang telah di-uninstall.
Coba dulu untuk menggunakan system tools, seperti system mechanic, wintoolspro, dsb. Untuk menganalisa dan membereskan masalah yg ada. Jika masih lambat. Lakukan instalasi ulang sistem operasi dengan menindih yg lama. ( fresh install ), jadi data-data tidak perlu di backup-restore. Tapi untuk antisipasi gagal, sebaiknya dilakukan backup.

sooo…wat hav u done wid ur lappy now!!

hav u discarded it…r did u find another way.

please reply asap to nash@iiita.ac.in coz i’m lso havin d same problem…n can’t figure out a way to get outta it.

bagus blognya..
minta linknya dong