- Jan 2, 2014
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Hey folks,
For the past six months I've been using a Lenovo Ideapad 520 laptop for general purposes, and I've been suffering from some ridiculously slow speeds for... pretty much everything since I bought it. It's got decent specs; an i5-8250U CPU CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM and a GeForce MX150 GPU, so I'm rather confused as to why the processing speeds are so slow.
From booting Microsoft Word to browsing Chrome, wait times for simple actions can be minutes long. This also applies to using the search bar in Windows; this seems to particularly upset the system. Furthermore, the boot speeds are 3-4 minutes on average. I don't use it for gaming, as this is my school laptop, and I performed a clean install of Windows 10 earlier today and the problems are persisting.
I do suspect the HDD (and by extension, lack of an SSD) may be the issue, however it doesn't always max at 100% usage or anything when the PC is slow, which is confusing. The HDD is a Seagate ST2000LM007, at 5400 RPM (which isn't terribly fast, but not awfully sluggish either).
Any help in potential system configs or recommendations for other action would be largely appreciated.
Thanks,
Jackie.
For the past six months I've been using a Lenovo Ideapad 520 laptop for general purposes, and I've been suffering from some ridiculously slow speeds for... pretty much everything since I bought it. It's got decent specs; an i5-8250U CPU CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM and a GeForce MX150 GPU, so I'm rather confused as to why the processing speeds are so slow.
From booting Microsoft Word to browsing Chrome, wait times for simple actions can be minutes long. This also applies to using the search bar in Windows; this seems to particularly upset the system. Furthermore, the boot speeds are 3-4 minutes on average. I don't use it for gaming, as this is my school laptop, and I performed a clean install of Windows 10 earlier today and the problems are persisting.
I do suspect the HDD (and by extension, lack of an SSD) may be the issue, however it doesn't always max at 100% usage or anything when the PC is slow, which is confusing. The HDD is a Seagate ST2000LM007, at 5400 RPM (which isn't terribly fast, but not awfully sluggish either).
Any help in potential system configs or recommendations for other action would be largely appreciated.
Thanks,
Jackie.
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