Off topic, I know, but I wanted to mention, in regard to item 11 on your list, that processor throttling might be coming in to play (laptop scales back the cpu's mhz to save on power) during the Vista testing procedure. Could be completely wrong here as I've never touched Vista, but I've certainly had my laptop misrated by certain programs due to this in the past. You'd think whatever process Vista uses to get the benchmark would be enough to kick the system up to full, but stranger things have been known to happen.
Might be worth looking into (if it's troubling you enough). Depending on the laptop maker there may be a power setting that will run the cpu at full tilt, or you can easily google something like "disabling cpu throttling" or something similar and come up with a handy registry hack.
Anyhow, just wanted to throw that into the ring. Back to the lurking shadows for me.
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Off topic, I know, but I wanted to mention, in regard to item 11 on your list, that processor throttling might be coming in to play (laptop scales back the cpu's mhz to save on power) during the Vista testing procedure. Could be completely wrong here as I've never touched Vista, but I've certainly had my laptop misrated by certain programs due to this in the past. You'd think whatever process Vista uses to get the benchmark would be enough to kick the system up to full, but stranger things have been known to happen.
Might be worth looking into (if it's troubling you enough). Depending on the laptop maker there may be a power setting that will run the cpu at full tilt, or you can easily google something like "disabling cpu throttling" or something similar and come up with a handy registry hack.
Anyhow, just wanted to throw that into the ring. Back to the lurking shadows for me.