Asus S400CA very slow laptop

[AdamS400CA]

Hi,

I purchased an Asus S400CA laptop last year and out of the box it was horribly slow. It has remained that way ever since. I recently upgraded to windows 10 and thought this might help but it is still the same. I ran a benchmark test and the results are as expected (very poor).

Here is a link to the results
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/817074

I didn't pay a huge amount for the machine but it can't even do basic tasks like surfing and it will collapse if I try and run Adobe Photoshop.

Is there anything someone can see from the test that is glaringly obvious as I can't work out why it is so bad.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Adam

UserBenchmarks: Desk 19%, Game 11%, Work 16%
CPU: Intel Core i3-3217U - 16.5%
GPU: Intel HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz) - 1.7%
HDD: Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 500GB - 45.1%
MBD: Asus S400CA

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

define slow?

100% sure its your drive. have you ever defragged it since then? you may want to do so. you might also want to use a program called ccleaner and use the clean tool, but dont use the registry cleaner, completely useless.

since youve experienced this since the beginning, i advise you to invest in an ssd, is going to make a massive difference in editing programs as well as photoshop, due to faster caching and faster reads and writes as well as access times.

if you want to invest in an ssd, whats your budget?

what you could do is buy an internal 2.5" ssd, as well as a 2.5" USB 3 enclosure which you use to first clone your operating system, and then replace the hard drive with the ssd inside your laptop, and then place the hard drive inside the usb 3 enclosure and use it as a backup drive.

4 gb RAM might seem like enough, but for photoshop its really not, especially not with raw files or lots of layers and lots of caching, youll quickly cripple your system due to the slow drive (hard drive).