I am looking to buy a new laptop and want to conquer a slowness issue that might be caused by the way I use it. As a researcher I often have 12 or more web pages open (using Firefox) plus 3 to 6 MS Office windows (mostly Word and Excel, but sometimes PPoint) and very little in graphics other than what is on web pages, minimal use of video or streaming. My existing HP laptop (2GB Ram 350 HDD with 53% usage, Athlon DC M300 2Ghz; Windows 7 with all updates) can be very slow loading a page or switching app's. AVG says I am virus free, and Windows Experience Index is 4.1 (which I sincerely doubt given the slowness issue) Do i need more RAM; better motherboard? What if I need to use video or more streaming as this seems to be the way forward. Thoughts ?
Thanks
Mitch
Thanks
Mitch