This laptop shouldn't be this slow!
Okay, so I'm sitting here with my newish HP Pavilion laptop. Generally I'm quite happy with it, except for the slowness it sometimes exhibits in windowing-related functions. Restoring a window from the taskbar or the system tray can take up to 10 seconds. Bringing background windows to the forground is like pushing a rock uphill, waiting for them to redraw.... and redraw... and redraw..... It's worst when I have several programs open. Most actual functions are very fast; the slowness is all around windowing.
The machine has an Athlon XP2800+ running at 2.12 Ghz, so it's not processor-bound. I suspect it's the ram, of which it has a mere 192mb.
Anybody else have any other thoughts than that? Anything else I ought to consider before I slap down the bux on some more ram?
I've gotten into digital music composition lately, too, and I suspect my realtime audio rendering would be much improved with some more memory.
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