Is it time?

[Mvard]

With my new job I notice myself grabbing for my laptop more especially for office, Photoshop, etc. Lately its seems like the thing is SO slow, I don't know if my desktop has spoiled me or what. Its a fairly decent specked laptop for what I paid for it, and I feel like it shouldn't feel this sluggish. It has an AMD A10 (Quad Core) with a base clock of 2.1 GHz that turbos to 2.9, 12 gigs of ram, and a 1 Tb HDD. It takes an ungodly amount of time to boot (45 Sec - 1 Min) (used to boot in about 15 - 20) and even performance in chrome seems weird. Is this a simple fix with an ssd or should I look for something new? It doesn't have any viruses and I haven't installed many programs, just office, Photoshop, Chrome, Itunes, and a few games. Its about 3-ish years old now. I've disabled startup programs, and even set it to boot up on all 4 cores, which didn't do much. Any feedback or advice would be much appreciated!

 

Thx,

--Mvard

[shadowbyte]

I'd definitely suggest picking up an SSD for it. Slow storage makes a painful experience. 

 

Look at OCZ's and PNY's lineups

[iamdarkyoshi]

Yeah, get an SSD. My dad's daily driver is a core2 duo with 4GB of DDR2, and I fitted it with an SSD, its better than anything you can get at worst buy for <500 bucks

[007agentHP]

adata sp550 240 GB SSD

 

[deVIZtation]

SSD will breathe new life into an old computer or laptop. I want to say that almost any computer or laptop could last 10 times longer for the average consumer if a SSD was installed.