Agony aunt required - help, I'm about to commit PCuicide.
My laptop is a 4 years old HP Pavilion G6 (AMD 1800 CPU which is admittedly crap, 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD), Windows 10 and Bitdefender AV.
It takes 30 seconds minimum to load any new webpage, the CPU is usually running 99% with what I consider reasonable apps taking the CPU % (Chrome, Windows Explorer, Bitdefender, nothing else over 5%). E.g. I've been just surfing for an hour, nothing else, yet the CPU is 99% with Chrome running 3 threads totalling 60% CPU.
I'm on BT Infinity fibre but want to throw the PC out of the window most of the time.
The wife's netbook (6 years old Packard Bell S1, Atom CPU, 2GB Ram, 128GB SSD, W10) is the same - Facebook never loads properly and other pages slow like mine.
So - could our home network or AV or something common be causing this?
Or is our hardware so obsolete that simply surfing and emailing is too much?
All recommendations (apart from "go Mac"!) gratefully received. Even considering going Linux although I've never tried it before.
Many thanks in advance for all advice.
My laptop is a 4 years old HP Pavilion G6 (AMD 1800 CPU which is admittedly crap, 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD), Windows 10 and Bitdefender AV.
It takes 30 seconds minimum to load any new webpage, the CPU is usually running 99% with what I consider reasonable apps taking the CPU % (Chrome, Windows Explorer, Bitdefender, nothing else over 5%). E.g. I've been just surfing for an hour, nothing else, yet the CPU is 99% with Chrome running 3 threads totalling 60% CPU.
I'm on BT Infinity fibre but want to throw the PC out of the window most of the time.
The wife's netbook (6 years old Packard Bell S1, Atom CPU, 2GB Ram, 128GB SSD, W10) is the same - Facebook never loads properly and other pages slow like mine.
So - could our home network or AV or something common be causing this?
Or is our hardware so obsolete that simply surfing and emailing is too much?
All recommendations (apart from "go Mac"!) gratefully received. Even considering going Linux although I've never tried it before.
Many thanks in advance for all advice.