My wife wanted to purchase a new laptop PC, but it just so happened that she was given one by a very good friend. Her friend, an older woman, has a tablet that she uses for everything, and didn't want to bother with the laptop.
I check the specs and said sure. (I'll never pass up a used PC.) It's an HP-2000 series with a 1.3GHz AMD E-300 accelerated processor with 4GB SDRAM (expandable up to 8GB) and an AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics processor. The only drawback I see was that it was purchased with Windows 8.1 installed. So far it's a seems like pretty good machine. My wife wanted MS Office installed so I purchased a MS Office subscription. Everything is snappy and quick to load. I also purchased a Norton subscription for it. All is good.
Until I go online. Then everything slows to a crawl. Some websites, like Yahoo.com, are absolutely horrible for delay, but even SoMD.com has noticeable delay. This laptop has both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome installed, and I cannot tell the difference performance-wise between the two. I want to blame the amount of video that websites try to push on you, but my old Dell Dimension 9150 running WinXP here at work doesn't have as much online delay as this laptop has.
And truthfully this is not the only laptop PC that I've used that operates like a dog when online. Are all laptops like this online?
I check the specs and said sure. (I'll never pass up a used PC.) It's an HP-2000 series with a 1.3GHz AMD E-300 accelerated processor with 4GB SDRAM (expandable up to 8GB) and an AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics processor. The only drawback I see was that it was purchased with Windows 8.1 installed. So far it's a seems like pretty good machine. My wife wanted MS Office installed so I purchased a MS Office subscription. Everything is snappy and quick to load. I also purchased a Norton subscription for it. All is good.
Until I go online. Then everything slows to a crawl. Some websites, like Yahoo.com, are absolutely horrible for delay, but even SoMD.com has noticeable delay. This laptop has both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome installed, and I cannot tell the difference performance-wise between the two. I want to blame the amount of video that websites try to push on you, but my old Dell Dimension 9150 running WinXP here at work doesn't have as much online delay as this laptop has.
And truthfully this is not the only laptop PC that I've used that operates like a dog when online. Are all laptops like this online?