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    Stupid slow netbook

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by IHateMayonnaise, Aug 13, 2010.

  1. IHateMayonnaise

    IHateMayonnaise Notebook Enthusiast

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    I love my netbook. Except it's slow. Not really slow, but slow nonetheless. I don't expect it to be as fast as regular laptops or desktops, but I would really like to be able to scroll smoothly through PDFs and to watch youtube videos without it skipping trying to keep up. Does everyone have this problem?

    It is a 1005HA with an Atom 1.6Ghz cpu, and I've upgraded the memory to fast timing 2GB OCZ DDR and also the HDD to a WD 7200rpm 16mb cache Scorpio Black. It has XP, and I've got it optimized (disabled unnecessary startup items, disabled indexing, turned off animations etc). All the drivers are up to date to my knowledge, and I just upgraded the BIOS.

    My question: is there any point in trying to make it better? At this point I feel as though the only parts that are left are the motherboard and CPU -- mobo is out of the question but I could reasonably switch out the proc if I could find one.

    IHateMayonnaise
     
    IHateMayonnaise, Aug 13, 2010
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  2. Idk-yet

    Idk-yet Notebook Geek

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    Yeah i hear ya, i don't think mayonnaise is so good either.. it's stupid, Ketchup wanna be
     
    Idk-yet, Aug 13, 2010
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