Laptops
Monday, July 1, 2002 by Flibbertygibbets | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Does anyone use WB on a laptop? If so, does it bog it down? If it runs smoothly for you, what are your specs?
md2433
Reply #2 Monday, July 1, 2002 8:38 PM
Reply #2 Monday, July 1, 2002 8:38 PM
Ok, here goes, I am running a 433cel,128mb,XP home on this notebook with a 14.1 screen. I use three different log on's, one with WB's, one with WB's set up differentt and to do different things, and one with DX. I LOVE IT and have LogonSudio running as well. I see hardly any slow down. I LOVE IT... Yep, that's a slow 433mhz cel proccessor. 
Frogboy
Reply #4 Monday, July 1, 2002 9:18 PM
Reply #4 Monday, July 1, 2002 9:18 PM
I do much of my work from home via a ThinkPad T20. It's a P3-700mhz system with 256MB. It's the system I demo all the Stardock stuff on.
Right now I've got ObjectBar, DesktopX, WindowBlinds and WindowFX running with WindowBlinds runnign the Aquarium theme.
It doesn't bog down as long as I'm runnning with 65k colors. However, at 32bit color it's too slow.
Right now I've got ObjectBar, DesktopX, WindowBlinds and WindowFX running with WindowBlinds runnign the Aquarium theme.
It doesn't bog down as long as I'm runnning with 65k colors. However, at 32bit color it's too slow.
MikeB314
Reply #5 Monday, July 1, 2002 9:26 PM
Reply #5 Monday, July 1, 2002 9:26 PM
I use a P3 700mhz HP notebook with only 128MB RAM and a lousy 12MB of onboard video. It has a crisp 15" screen though. Anyway, I run WB and WFX2 together on it non-stop. Sometimes I even throw DesktopX in the mix too. It never bogs down. Although, I wish I had a better video adapter for all the goodies in WFX2.
DavidK
Reply #6 Monday, July 1, 2002 9:59 PM
Reply #6 Monday, July 1, 2002 9:59 PM
I've been using Windowblinds on various notebooks for 3 years with no problem. Right now it's a Dell Latitude 810: 1.2Mhz PIII, GeForce2 32Mb, 512Mb RAM, 1600x1200 32bit color, WinXP. I have no troubles at all running WB with NextStart, Winamp, ICQPlus, WindowsFX, Webblinds and ObjectBar also running. I use Photoshop and CorelDraw (or Illustrator) sometimes with both open at the same time plus IE6 and Outlook Express open. The only time I have to close some apps to save memory is when I've got a huge CMYK job open (typically about 100-300Mb), then I can still have all the skinning stuff run but I try to keep the other apps closed.
Chef Garry
Reply #7 Monday, July 1, 2002 11:40 PM
Reply #7 Monday, July 1, 2002 11:40 PM
I'm posting from home so I'm working from memory. I run a Verity laptop, 333 Mhz. I've run Win 98SE, NT and now XP Pro on the machine without any real problems. It might be a tad slow from time to time but not more than you might expect for such a feeble-ass computer (can you tell I'm looking for an upgrade).
JDavidHarper
Reply #8 Monday, July 1, 2002 11:50 PM
Reply #8 Monday, July 1, 2002 11:50 PM
I got this laptop for graduation this year, and WindowBlinds works wonders. I have desktopX running as well, and it doesn't seem to be much of a drain. Running on WinXP (Yay! Stable software!)
SkinneRyan
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 3:10 AM
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 3:10 AM
i had problems with my laptop, however, since it was a P1 75MHz with 8 MB ram running win 95 with 512 MB hard drive space, and a broken floppy drive, the problem was actually starting the computer and getting WB to run on it, more so than WB being the problem.
i hope this helped
i hope this helped
Mr Benn
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 4:52 AM
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 4:52 AM
I have Object Desktop, which I run on a 3 year old IBM Thinkpad 600E, PII 366 with 128Mb RAM and Windows 2000.
WindowBlinds runs fine (although sometimes I get some strange artefacts like buttons losing their skin or random scroll bars appearing in the middle of windows!) as does ObjectBar, DesktopX and CursorXP. WindowFX is a total non-starter however, it really does slow things down and some effects won't work at all.
I think the key factor is not the processor or memory, but the graphics system (as with desktop machines, I guess). If you are thinking of buying a new laptop, or one made in the last year or so, you should be fine. Around that time, the manufacturers realised that people wanted to do 'normal' things like play games or watch DVD movies on their laptops, and started to put decent hardware acceleration into the graphics chips.
I bought OD to amuse myself while I am working away from home - hope you have as much fun as I have had
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WindowBlinds runs fine (although sometimes I get some strange artefacts like buttons losing their skin or random scroll bars appearing in the middle of windows!) as does ObjectBar, DesktopX and CursorXP. WindowFX is a total non-starter however, it really does slow things down and some effects won't work at all.
I think the key factor is not the processor or memory, but the graphics system (as with desktop machines, I guess). If you are thinking of buying a new laptop, or one made in the last year or so, you should be fine. Around that time, the manufacturers realised that people wanted to do 'normal' things like play games or watch DVD movies on their laptops, and started to put decent hardware acceleration into the graphics chips.
I bought OD to amuse myself while I am working away from home - hope you have as much fun as I have had
.
adni18
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 5:12 AM
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 5:12 AM
I do all of my work in a Presario Compaq P3 800MHz laptop, with 15.1" monitor, 192MB RAM and with Windows XP Pro. I have no problems in general, except that with WindowBlinds on, I can't put the Language bar back to Taskbar any more! I hope the nice guys from Stardock will fix this problem someday
Entilza
Reply #12 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 6:04 AM
Reply #12 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 6:04 AM
I use Windowblinds on my laptop when i am away from home and it runs fine for me,I have 192 ram and win 98se on it and it runs just dandy.
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Reply #1 Monday, July 1, 2002 8:22 PM
System Information report written at: 07/01/2002 08:13:17 PM
[System Summary]
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model Solo 9500
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~894 Mhz
BIOS Version Rev 1.0 XXX
Locale United States
Total Physical Memory 261,104 KB
Available Physical Memory 35,392 KB
Total Virtual Memory 705,108 KB
Available Virtual Memory 240,904 KB
Page File Space 444,004 KB
Hope that helps....