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New laptop is slow (Acer)

Olemumsen

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Aug 6, 2015
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I just bought a new laptop and it's very slow. The brand is Acer.
Info:
- model: Aspire ES1-520 (cheap)
- 4GB RAM
- Processor: AMD E1-2500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics - 2 CPU's 1.4 GHz
- Win 8.1

The CPU, disc and memory are around 100 %. Is there any way to solve this?
 


I will if I can. But it shouldn't be as slow as it is.
And I purposely bought a cheap laptop, because I already have a high end gaming pc and I needed a laptop for school.

Anyway, thanks for your time.
 
Yeah, it should be that slow. The processor in that Acer is worse than the one in my old POS Toshiba Satellite from 2009 (AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60). Sad but true. 🙁