Slow Facebook navigation on Intel Atom N2600 [Read more]

[Esteban Francou]

Hello Everybody,

I just received a new Netbook (Mini-Laptop) (Intel Atom N2600, 1,6GhZ, 2 Cores, 4 Threads) with 2Gb DDR3, and other less important features.

I was used to my Laptops (Core 2 Duo and Core i5) and now I feel that navigator works weirdly bad. I mean, when I open heavy sites like Facebook or Youtube, my processor get stacked to 25/30% and navigation of the site is really poor. I noticed that my navigators are not using the 4 threads of my CPU, not even 2 threads, only one.

I understand that with one Atom thread I can't do so much, but is there a navigator able to use the 4 threads? I mean I work with Gmail, Facebook and other tabs and I need the best browser performance. You must be thinking why don't you use the Core 2 Duo or Core i5, but I prefer the Minilap because it's lighter and the battery last longer times...

Regards!

 

[elemein]

What browser are you using? Using lightweight browsers like Tor works best.

 

[jaguarskx]

The Atom is pretty weak unfortunately. While it is a dual core processor with Hyper Thread, it is simply a weak CPU to begin with.

Below are some lightweight browsers to consider.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-web-browser-lightweight.htm

 

[Guest]

Atom is a freaking weak system.

My opinion is just fix your browser. Because I have a atom net book but it is fine to work so.

Just fix the issue of flash player.
In chrome. Just to go to
chrome://plugins/
in your Adobe Flash Player it should be only 2 files

On firefox. just install the Adobe Flash Player 10.01 plug in. not the 11 version.

 

[Esteban Francou]

What browser are you using? Using lightweight browsers like Tor works best.

Thank you. I'll try it right now.

 

[Sangeet Khatri]

Getting a lightweight browser will solve half the problem the better solution is to get a new operating system that is fully optimized for netbooks. There are many linux distros out there one of them is Lubuntu which i use as my primary Operating System even though i have a Core2Duo Processor but this thing is incredibly fast and takes just around 70-80 MB RAM on startup and is very fast even on netbooks

Some linux distros which are very good for netbooks and will make it feel like a whole new computer is:-
1. Lubuntu
2. JoliCloud OS

Linux has a bit of learning curve over windows but after learning everything the end experience is worth it.
You can also dual boot a linux distro with the existing Windows Installation and it is real easy. Just go Google search how to dual boot Lubuntu with Windows and you will get it.

And this will make your netbook feel very fast so i highly recommend you to try out Lubuntu
Regards

 

[Esteban Francou]

Hmm, I tried some lightweight browsers but I don't get the expected results. I want that any tab of my Browser be capable to use the 4 threads if necessary not only one. Any Ideas?

 

[elemein]

Hmm, I tried some lightweight browsers but I don't get the expected results. I want that any tab of my Browser be capable to use the 4 threads if necessary not only one. Any Ideas?

That's not exactly how it works; you have four threads, but only four execution threads. You still only have two cores, each with an execution thread for the different types of calculations a CPU does. One thread for FPU and one thread for ALU; per core. Though the fetch, decode, and store paths are all tailored to one thread. Browsers do not use FPU instructions very much.

Chrome has multi-thread support, mainly for ALU instructions.