Quote Originally Posted by Freedom View Post
All the other info is also a key to solving the problem. Back 3 years ago when I bought both of them, I was not playing ANY Games. I remember the folks asking me that, at Staples. And I know for a fact the laptop keeps giving me messages that it doesn't have enough virtual memory and is expanding that; after which is shuts down.
Whenever your computer runs out of physical RAM, which is where it temporarily stores information that it is using, it starts swapping some of that to your hard drive. When it does that, performance decreases about 20x since hard drives are much slower than RAM is. My suggestion: take your computer to a local tech shop and get them to put more RAM into it.


Quote Originally Posted by kokopup
Reggie, You failed to mention that you are using linux and compared to Windows nothing uses resources. I'm running Linux on my laptop which is what I post with. It is so much faster than my windows Units that have CPU's 4 time faster.
And I'm using one of the lightest true distros of Linux there is .

I have a account on Facebook as well as most people. I leave it open in a tab all the time, and it has never decreased the performance of my computer, nor has it started eating RAM more than Firefox already does. Then again, I'm not really sure if it would influence Linux or not.