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Old Aug 10, 2004 | 11:40 am
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Originally Posted by GadgetFreak
Not always. I have a Sony Viao 505 that is really small and light. A replacement would be a couple grand, maybe close to 3 grand. It may not be the fastest thing for windows but it works fine with Linux, which I have on there as well as windows. But the disk is real small. I was considering using it for mail (Outlook) in Windows and everything else in Linux. Are there good places to upgrade disc drives?
I had a similar situation with a nice but older Sony PCG-818 (PII 233MH I believe). I bought a new 20GB HDD for $100 on www.ebay.com and maxed out the RAM for $40 from www.crucial.com . It works far finer and far faster than ever before.

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