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Get machine, wipe HD, reinstall Windows, reinstall drivers. Windows Update is an unfortunately necessary evil, it becomes more painful the longer it has been since a major Windows release.
Interestingly, the bricks-and-mortar Microsoft Stores seem to sell laptops with a version of Win 8 that has no crapware/bloatware and is optimized to run well; a lot like doing a fresh install.
Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Maybe the i3 has a ridiculously slow cpu clock? I had an i7 laptop for work that was painfully slower than an old c2d laptop i bought. t520 i7 1.6ghz v t400 c2d 2.4ghz
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> Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8 o_0
"Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8, WART, and Surface. The mainstream press seemed too welded to the MS advertising revenue stream to dare even hint that the emperor has no clothes...."
Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
> Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8 o_0
Yawn.
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Maybe the i3 has a ridiculously slow cpu clock? I had an i7 laptop for work that was painfully slower than an old c2d laptop i bought. t520 i7 1.6ghz v t400 c2d 2.4ghz
Every computer I own runs better with Windows 8 then Windows 7. Maybe I got lucky with GPU compatibility but my main CPU is the original dual core from 2006. I doubt the i3 is the problem unless its a GPU conflict or some sort or 3rd party "crapware".