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New Laptop, slower than expected?
Hi All,
I've recently got a Sony VAIO E11. I have read the reviews, and the most say it lacks slightly in power compared to other comparable laptops.
However, my local store had them on sale, and for me it will be perfect (I'm taking it away with me for several months with work to watch movies from the hard drive, surf the net and reply to emails etc) and skype home, so this will be fine.
However, I have spent the past day and a half uninstalling all the Sony VAIO Bloatware, and I have noticed an improvement. But there are some things that it continues to lag with.
At the time of writing this, I have google chrome open nothing running in the background apart from Vaio Smart Network, Bluestacks Agent, MSE and Vaio Care (which I can't stop from loading on startup).
It says there are 94 processes, the second I open task manager CPU usage is around 50% and physical memory at 46%.
Within a second the CPU usage drops to around 10% whilst the physical memory stays the same.
Is this normal? With a few applications it seems like it hangs for a few seconds before continuing with its operation... just wondering if there is anything else I can do to clean it up a little?
Edit: Forgot to add, if I am browsing and watching videos on youtube, the CPU usage shoots to between 55% and 70%, sometimes reaching 80% and I hear the fan start to whiz pretty fast! Normal?
Thanks all
Amnesia