I've always owned fairly powerful desktop computers, so I'm accustomed to having the operating system work quickly.
Last year I bought my son a laptop, which shipped with Windows 8 pre-installed. This computer is no slouch: It has a Intel Core i5-3317U processor and 6 GB of RAM. And yet, many basic OS operations have always been very slow. For example: opening a control panel applet, starting Task Manager (via CTRL+SHIFT+Esc) or starting an application can often take as much as 20 seconds. That doesn't seem right.
Several malware scanners haven't found a problem. Internet speed is fabulous (thanks to our speedy broadband connection). Hardly anything starts with Windows.
Often when Win8 acts this slow I open Task Manager and watch what's running. There's really nothing taking up CPU cycles or RAM.
Here's the kicker: The laptop exhibits this behavior even in Safe Mode.
Does this computer have a problem, or do I just have to accept that laptops run much slower than desktops?
Last year I bought my son a laptop, which shipped with Windows 8 pre-installed. This computer is no slouch: It has a Intel Core i5-3317U processor and 6 GB of RAM. And yet, many basic OS operations have always been very slow. For example: opening a control panel applet, starting Task Manager (via CTRL+SHIFT+Esc) or starting an application can often take as much as 20 seconds. That doesn't seem right.
Several malware scanners haven't found a problem. Internet speed is fabulous (thanks to our speedy broadband connection). Hardly anything starts with Windows.
Often when Win8 acts this slow I open Task Manager and watch what's running. There's really nothing taking up CPU cycles or RAM.
Here's the kicker: The laptop exhibits this behavior even in Safe Mode.
Does this computer have a problem, or do I just have to accept that laptops run much slower than desktops?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8