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New Laptop Slow

  • 27-12-2013 2:22pm
    #1
    OldBlueEyes Nidge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 27 ✭


    Hi,
    I got a new laptop on Christmas day,it was running fine on the 25th but since then i have found it slow while browsing the internet.
    I installed 3 pieces of software:Google Chrome,Steam, and Norton anti virus. I also installed football manager 13. It plays films music and games fine but when I'm on the internet its slow to load pages and it lags. I taught it would be a good laptop with a nice hard drive and pretty good Ram.(link below).
    Any advice ?
    Thanks

    powercity.ie/?par=10-30-C50136&pages=1&prod=C50136&brands=TOSHIBA&image=


Comments

  • #2
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    RAM and the Hard Drive are almost completely irrelevant to performance. That laptop has a processor that is the slowest of pretty much every processor on sale anywhere so it is going to be very slow. You shouldn't be playing FM on that laptop, FM is way too intense for that laptop.

    Use Firefox or chromium instead of chrome. Norton Internet security rather then Antivirus.

    Check to see if you are infected with malware other than viruses as you wouldn't be protected from those.


  • #3
    OldBlueEyes Nidge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 27 ✭OldBlueEyes Nidge


    GarIT wrote: »
    RAM and the Hard Drive are almost completely irrelevant to performance. That laptop has a processor that is the slowest of pretty much every processor on sale anywhere so it is going to be very slow. You shouldn't be playing FM on that laptop.

    Thats a bummer :(
    Is there anyway to change your processor. I presume you cant


  • #4
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Unfortunately not with most laptops.


  • #5
    OldBlueEyes Nidge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 27 ✭OldBlueEyes Nidge


    GarIT wrote: »
    Unfortunately not with most laptops.

    Is there no other way to speed it up.


  • #6
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Not really, you can try to use lighter versions of programs.

    The processor decides how fast everything runs, the RAM decides how much you can do at the same time and the hard drive access time decides how fast things load. The problem you have is that the processor in that laptop is the least powerful of all the processors in AMD's "low powered eco friendly" series, Hence the name E1.


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  • #7
    stejk11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭stejk11


    You could also try turn off automatic updates for Windows 8 and decide yourself when you want to update.
    I've found that auto update slows my laptop down as it seamed to prioritise that over everything else and used maximum processor power available.


  • #8
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    stejk11 wrote: »
    You could also try turn off automatic updates for Windows 8 and decide yourself when you want to update.
    I've found that auto update slows my laptop down as it seamed to prioritise that over everything else and used maximum processor power available.

    That's not a good idea windows updates are absolutely essential for security.


  • #9
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    I see what you are saying about the processor.. But OP reports that the laptop was running fine and then subsequently slowed down... I'd expect that its sufficient for browsing if nothing else is causing a problem..

    I'd say some hungry app got installed along the way...


    OP:
    If its the case that the laptop has slowed from a good performance then I'd be looking into what is running that you don't need and see about stopping them..

    Or if you have a disc you could go and wipe back to the out of the box set up and see how it goes..


  • #10
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    bbam wrote: »
    I see what you are saying about the processor.. But OP reports that the laptop was running fine and then subsequently slowed down... I'd expect that its sufficient for browsing if nothing else is causing a problem..

    I'd say some hungry app got installed along the way...


    OP:
    If its the case that the laptop has slowed from a good performance then I'd be looking into what is running that you don't need and see about stopping them..

    Or if you have a disc you could go and wipe back to the out of the box set up and see how it goes..

    I'd say it's the antivirus, but that's necessary. You'd be surprised about browsing, it just about meets the minimum requirements for using chrome.


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