Today I had to fix a personnal computer : HP slimline :
According to the user, it is so slow that his son never used it well... prefering his father laptop !..even to watch pictures.
I first reinstalled the computer from scratch with standard VISTA ; in other words, no additionnal crapware (*). Then I installed Avast and MS Office 2003.
But, despite 2 Gb of memory, MS Vista performance reported 1/5 !!
I discovered the graphic card is the bottom neck : only 64M of memory when a laptop today is running an integrated 256 MB...
I do not blame HP, as when using it with MS Office it runs ok. However, everybody knows tday that a family computer will be used for games...
Don't you think that the vendor should have warn the end user ?
(*) all software installed by computer makers - supposed free- that in fact slow down the computer. Typically here the full last version of Norton.... that end user never paid for updates so probably infected his computer...
