Just bought a laptop with an i3-5020U and 4gb of ddr3 ram, I mainly want to use it for web browsing but its pretty slow, how can I speed it up?
Just bought a laptop with an i3-5020U and 4gb of ddr3 ram, I mainly want to use it for web browsing but its pretty slow...
Landon Baker
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Leo Rogers
If you just use it to browse, install a linux distro like ubuntu or mint. Less bloated - > faster
Logan Price
replace the spinning rust with a cheap ssd and throw linux on it.
Thomas Jackson
>4gb of ram
You need 16gb at the minimum. The creep is real and pretty soon 32gb will be needed as a standard.
Lucas Walker
Go to your C:/ drive and delete System32.
Cameron Ross
No need. Just install 1809 and trust M$ to screw it up for OP
Nathan Walker
uninstall windows
Jayden White
/thread
Christian Brown
install gentoo
Connor Sanchez
use linux with a lightweight DE or IDE, and firefox. someone i know does this on a 10+ year old machine with 1 gb ram and it's all he needs for web browsing and videos.
Leo Young
>i3-5020U and 4gb of ddr3 ram
>pretty slow
amazing
i had a 16yo hp with p3 and 1g ram work fine with firefox 60
Owen Bennett
Or disable caching entirely. Cache lookups are stupidly slow because of HDD seek times.
Also, go lightweight (install a distro with LXDE or something) and throw in more RAM if you keep lots of tabs open.
You can also try forcing hardware acceleration in your browser.
Adam Kelly
that's a myth
slow is either
>driver/firmware
>overused ram/swap
Kevin Reyes
fucking hell this hits home
every damn time i update windows on my pc, it's a gamble. i've had to roll back updates and reinstall 4 times because it either completely destroyed GPU/NIC drivers or caused BSODs
back with 7 i used to be able to hit OK to all in WSUS once a month on a test group, then wait a week, and OK to everyone else
10 has totally destroyed my ability to set and forget about updates. if even 1 pc messes up during a large update, i'll have to spend several hours rolling it back and reinstalling
fuck MS
Ethan Howard
Have you ever looked at how bad NT is as scheduling tasks?
Spawn a single process that thrashes a single processor and look at detailed processor usage. Code monkeys at Microsoft don't seem to be aware that CPUs have per-core caches, and that context switches are expensive.
And don't get me started on how poorly designed it is (literally rendering fonts in kernel, joke of a file system…)
Jose Murphy
Whats a good SSD for a laptop?
I mainly want to use it to shitpost on Jow Forums
Gavin Thomas
also what are some good accessories for a laptop in general?
Cooper Campbell
>i3-5020U
>U
no wonder your system is dying LMAO
seriously study what those letters at the end means XD
Parker Bailey
By 5th gen U-series CPUs were almost on par with M-series Sandy Bridge chips, so it's not that bad. I hope you have good thermal paste and adequate cooling, though.
Owen Allen
Install Haiku on a SSD. There, your computer is now okay at webbrowsing (web browsing is actually one of the heaviest tasks that a computer does)
Anthony Edwards
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Charles Gomez
really makes me think
Aiden Torres
You need Xubuntu/Lubuntu friend.
Lucas Russell
install Xubuntu with proper drivers
Asher Hernandez
VOID GNU/LINUX
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Joshua Clark
Install Pop!_OS mate, all other Linux distros are butt ugly only Jow Forums and their mothers can love.
Nathan Bailey
install linux with new kde 5.15. it boots 0.1 seconds faster than before!
Daniel Harris
I wanna do this but windows is like $140 and I dont want to lose it
Thomas Adams
I'm reading this on a laptop with 2GB of RAM dude. 4GB is do-able but I'd recommend 8
Henry Cook
it probably has a really slow hard drive. install a brand new SSD on it.
for web browsing you need 4gb or more of RAM, or avoid using more than one tab at once.
you can create a partition for windows when you install linux.
Zachary Thomas
16GB is only useful when you're using demanding applications, like audio and video editors, or 3d modeling software. above that is overkill for consumers at this point
Jeremiah Cooper
>its pretty slow
cloveros.ga
Thank me later.
Cameron Taylor
resize your windows partition to free space for linux then install GRUB to dual boot
Benjamin Robinson
i like how their distro website is unfinished and doesn't contain help sections
Kayden Richardson
I use 4 gb.
34 pages opened up and i see no lag.
Benjamin Thompson
San Disk, Samsung, ADATA
Leo Baker
>he needs help
gitgud.io
Charles Reed
1) Buy another 4GB stick. More RAM is always better + it will run in dual channel and 3D graphics / games will run 50% faster (this is really essential for these CPUs/APUs).
2) Buy and SSD.
That's probably all you can do. I think the CPU should be powerful enough for comfortable browsing.
Bentley Butler
also the new RAM stick's specs should be as close as possible to the original one (if not identical).
Landon Green
Buy a cheap 128gb ssd off of Ebay and 4 more gigs of ram, install mint and then jack it to loli you sicko
Kayden Brooks
add Crucial to this list
Jayden Hughes
Not wrong. My winblows machine at work regularly uses 24GB out of 32. All the different browsers across multiple virtual desktops adds up. At home I get away with linux, i5 cpu and 5.7GB (wtf?) memory. But it's not enough and I'm about to do a mega upgrade.
Crap like atom text editor really accelerates this trend. Even if I had 64GB of memory I wouldn't use atom.
Adrian Evans
Pretty much all of them are good, just stay away from off brand chink shit you have never heard of.