Is my laptop just to old?
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Solved by Hamako,
The GMA950 doesn't offer hardware acceleration for videos, so all the videos are being decoded by your CPU, putting a lot of stress on it. While these Core Duo machines can still be very snappy if you equip them with a SSD and run Linux, I'd recommend to get at least a Penryn-based Core 2 Duo with GMA4500MHD, which is the first Intel GPU to support video acceleration. There are plenty of business laptops on eBay that offer this at a very low price. (something like a ThinkPad T400 will cost you about 50-150$, depending on the specs and condition)
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