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Question

I am buying a laptop and i need some help!!

Dec 30, 2014 4:27AM PST

i'm getting a laptop of little woods and i have no bloody idea what im supposed to be doing or what im supposed to be looking for its a tonne of numbers and letters to me but im hoping you guys can help me out!!

Baseically i have an acer aspire 9300 and it was clearly made in cavemen times and takes 25 minutes to even load a web page and wont even play hd!!

My main uses for my laptop will be heavy internet searching (i'm a blogger so i spend alot of time online!) so i want it to be fast!! i'm also a youtube and i want it to actually function when im trying to edit a HD video so for editing purposes and watching things in HD. I also watch a huge amount of netflix on my laptop so i want it to have good sound and storage.

That is majorly what i use my laptops for surfing the web, editing and watching a massive amount of netflix and youtube! I also do alot of photo editing on photoshop

I've no idea what storage im looking at im thinking 1TB might be the best but its more the other settings it comes with that im interested in and need to know about.

http://www.littlewoods.com/hp-pavilion-15-intelreg-coretrade-i3-processor-6gb-ram-1tb-hard-drive-wi-fi-bgn-bt-156-inch-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-personal-365-silver/1436926515.prd

this is one that i like but not sure it'll be as good for what i need it for. and...

http://www.littlewoods.com/hp-pavilion-15-p130na-amd-a8-processor-8gb-ram-1tb-hard-drive-wi-fi-bgn-bt-156-inch-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-personal-365-purple/1436928632.prd


if you could let me know, or if you know of another one on their site that would be better please let me know. Not like a grand or anything i do have to pay this back lol

TYIA!!

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toss another 1GB of RAM into that
Dec 30, 2014 5:02AM PST

and it's plenty enough for internet related surfing. The problem is less the machine and more the Vista. Just for fun, since these came with DVD drives, try an Ubuntu LIVE DVD in it and see how it does.

https://www.osdisc.com/products/linux/ubuntu/ubuntu-14041-lts-desktop-install-live-dvd-32bit.html

or Mint MATE 17 LIVE DVD.

https://www.osdisc.com/products/linux/linuxmint/linux-mint-171-mate-install-live-dvd-32bit.html

Also, have someone with a faster computer see how it runs on your internet service, I suspect they will detect a slowdown too, because that may be where the problem is.

You can also lower the demand of the display by resetting the resolution to lower, like 1280 x 800

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4200U-vs-AMD-A8-6410
I would go with AMD A8 instead of Intel i3

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These don't look like very good deals.
Dec 30, 2014 5:10AM PST