feed it a nice samsung ssd drive
toO
(especially when they get cheeper)
I did a full reinstall of my stuff (windows os, 101 updates, office etc) in under 4 hours (including download time) .. the ssd drive doesn't seem to boot that fast - but the applications load very quick.
which flavor of linux do you run on it? (I've run knoppix off a disk but really never installed any on the latitude x1)