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Hello everyone, I am new to this forum. I love the Vaio P and I want to have the $1199 model, but on every page I read that the Vaio P is slow. But what does everbody mean by slow and compared to what? I have a Compaq Pressario 1.6ghz Intel Celeron 520 CPU 1024mb memory 256 shared intel graphic card (mobile intel 945 express chipset family) PS: It is running Windows Vista home basic. So my question is; will the vaio P run slower than my compaq model? And in what? opening programms, etc.? Thnx.