Replacement for 27" All in One

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Doug_16

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My wife has a new Samsung ATIV All in One, 27", 8gb ram, 1TB 5400 HD. It gets loaded down so much with multiple browser windows and Word docs (she's a writer) that speed slows to a crawl. I suspect it's the integrated graphics card and slower HDD that Samsung used. Would a gaming laptop with a good graphics card and SSD, slaved to a big monitor, handle the load she puts on it?
 
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It's 90% the HDDs fault. A good SSD would solve her problems, word docs aren't difficult for computers, unless she literally has a 1000 open at once.

Graphics cards are only for 3d. She'd be better off with like 3 24" 1080p monitors probably as well, would make viewing 6 full documents at a time really easy, or 2/3 in portrait mode so she can have more on the screen at one time.
 
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Well, she runs Chrome, which as we know, runs a complete copy of Chrome for every tab...so at any given time, she's got 7-12 copies of Chrome running. Plus Skype, Yahoo chat, etc. So you think it's a virtual memory swap issue?
 
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Yeah, but each chrome tab is only like 60MBs in ram usage size. that's still under a GB, and you've got 8 total.

When the typical user says their computer is "slow" it's because the hard drive is full/was always slow, or they have a virus.

Are you sure she doesn't have a virus or something? (mcafee/ect suck)
https://www.malwarebytes.org/
 
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How does the RAM utilization look in Task Manager? If it's getting low on 'available' RAM, it starts handing off to the HDD which is slower generally, let alone when it's handed off to a 5400rpm drive.

I'd ensure the system is virus-free and RAM is sufficient (ie even when she's fully working, there's still a decent amount of memory free), along with CPU utilization not maxing out at 100% before considering a new system.

Which model does she have? I believe they came with i5's. So an i5 + 8Gb RAM should be more than sufficient for her needs. The 5400rpm drive is a let-down though, and an SSD upgrade would likely do wonders.
 
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Virus and malware scans came up negative. Ram use runs around 30-50% pretty consistently. I could see issues if RAM usage was 70-90%, but it's never that high. It is the i5 processor and 5400 rpm HDD.

I pulled up processes in Task Manager - here's the breakdown:

Chrome - 187.9 mb
Chrome - 180 mb
Chrome - 138.1 mb
Chrome - 110.1 mb
Skype - 98.4 mb
Antimalware service executable - 97.1 mb
Service Host - 76 mb

After that are five more Chromes from 64 mb down to 15 mb, as well as the usual normal low usage processes.

The Chromes are 32 bit and it's a 64 bit Windows 10...could that have anything to do with it?
 
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When opening up a new tab, CPU and Disk utilization are below 20%..they stay around 10% and 9% down to 2% respectably when just sitting there, so it doesn't seem to be an issue there. That's what I don't understand...I would expect CPU or RAM to be maxed in order to create the slowdowns experienced, but it seems to be drawing pretty low resources.
 
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The longer the system is up, the worse it gets. After about 18 hours of use, shutting down can take ten minutes, as even switching windows can take 15-30 seconds. Shutting down Chrome can take two minutes or more before it finally catches up.
 
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