Packard Bell Easynote B3600 Wifi Camera
Packard Bell Easynote B3600 The Packard Bell Easynote B3600 was released circa 2005 and I bought it at 649 euros. Its main specifications are the following: AMD Sempron 3000+ (actually at 1.8 Ghz) Chipset video S3 Unichrome (up to 64 mo shared memory) 512 Mo de ram DDR (on two so-dimm modules) 50 Go hard disk (I think it’s 4200 rpm) 1024x768 15 inches TFT screen Modem 56K, Ethernet 100 Mbps, Wifi G Graveur DVD Dual As you can see it’s not the fastest computer in the world and is almost already 5 years old. Benchmarking gives the following: 3D Mark 2001: 1407, only 89 on 3D Mark 2003 - my does 12731 at 3D Mark 2003. CPU Mark 99 at 190 (not too shabby 5 years ago) Disk read rate at 28.1 mo / s, 11.5 ms access time - a modern 2.5 inches drive like the WD Scorpio 500 Go does 69 mo/s but not too bad for a 4200 rpm drive Under Packard Bell Windows XP, it was very slow (on day one of purchase), because of bloatware. Under standard Windows XP, it was ok or even fast, but has slowed significantly with the additional Service Pack: boot time was very long, and it was sometimes unresponsive (because of hard disk? Internet access), while being fast enough for Internet or Wordpad without those slowing down.
A lot of older computers have the same specs in many families and were supplied with Windows XP. So how would they fare under Windows Seven? Only 448 Mo available because 64 mo is taken by S3 graphics chipset Of course, 448 mo available isn’t going to cut it for Windows Seven (minimum is 1 Go for 32 bit version, 2 Go for 64 bit version), so I purchased a quite cheap upgrade at 20 euros from US (eBay).
Packard Bell Easynote B3600 Wifi Camera Driver
A little ram package from the US: two 512 mo 200 pins so-dimm DDR PC2700 Shiny stickers on the ram modules Original two 256 Mo SO-DIMM modules Replaced by the new 512 mo modules Now 960 Mo available: that’s better even if it’s not 1 Go yet The ram was sent quickly, it worked perfectly. I should have made a shot at 2 Go ram for 40 euros, but the risk is high (even Packard Bell site says the, but some laptop with the same chipset go as far as 2 Go - guess I’ll never know). Windows 7 Premium 32 bit installation 32 bit and 64 bit DVD supplied: AMD Sempron is 32 bit processor Boot from the DVD and. It crashes Ok first try very disappointing, the DVD boots but crashes after and I can’t change anything significant in the BIOS. I was planning for desperate measure like just in case but then. It might be an, this forum says the answer is update the bios but what if it’s already the latest version? Fortunately the DVD is readable under installed XP I checked the Windows Seven compatibility program Seven!