Got this netbook that has an Intel atom 1.6 Ghz processor in it. And that may be the problem in and of itself. Basically installed Windows 7 ultimate without a hitch, did all the updates, installed latest firefox (version 30 currently) & flash, then proceeded to try and watch a youtube video. This is generally my first test of a system I expect might have issues with speed, and it did, extremely poor playback, a few frames here and there and very chopped up sound.
I figured this might the case as I was watching how long it took to do updates, and how long it took just for firefox to come up at all, switch tabs, do a google search etc. Pulled up task manager and the cpu is pretty much sitting at 100% just sitting at google doing nothing with 1 page up in firefox & task manager running.
So, here's what I have tried so far;
1. Disabled system restore.
2. Turned off the Search Indexing service
3. Turned off nearly all visual enhancements in system properties except the 1st, 3rd & 4th from the bottom.
I'm guessing the little Atom processor just doesn't have the power to run the fat ass browsers anymore (they seem to use so much more resources than they used to, but I guess that's always a constant really.)
Wondering if there is a way I can salvage this thing and get it to function better & use less cpu? I'd really like to get 7 functioning and usable, but this little cpu seems to be quite limited unfortunately. Otherwise I guess perhaps Ubuntu or something might be faster & usable on it but I'm not really sure, or that it would even work. I also haven't touched a linux/unix system in years and had to load windows straight off the hard drive as I couldn't get any external drives to recognize and boot on this thing, but they came up fine after windows was loaded.
Hoping someone might have some ideas to make watching videos & browsing on this little guy possible, I hate to just call it junk at this point when there's nothing really wrong with it other than XP being no longer supported, which I'm sure would have run better on it :/
I figured this might the case as I was watching how long it took to do updates, and how long it took just for firefox to come up at all, switch tabs, do a google search etc. Pulled up task manager and the cpu is pretty much sitting at 100% just sitting at google doing nothing with 1 page up in firefox & task manager running.
So, here's what I have tried so far;
1. Disabled system restore.
2. Turned off the Search Indexing service
3. Turned off nearly all visual enhancements in system properties except the 1st, 3rd & 4th from the bottom.
I'm guessing the little Atom processor just doesn't have the power to run the fat ass browsers anymore (they seem to use so much more resources than they used to, but I guess that's always a constant really.)
Wondering if there is a way I can salvage this thing and get it to function better & use less cpu? I'd really like to get 7 functioning and usable, but this little cpu seems to be quite limited unfortunately. Otherwise I guess perhaps Ubuntu or something might be faster & usable on it but I'm not really sure, or that it would even work. I also haven't touched a linux/unix system in years and had to load windows straight off the hard drive as I couldn't get any external drives to recognize and boot on this thing, but they came up fine after windows was loaded.
Hoping someone might have some ideas to make watching videos & browsing on this little guy possible, I hate to just call it junk at this point when there's nothing really wrong with it other than XP being no longer supported, which I'm sure would have run better on it :/
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