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I've already got an Acer R11 (2gb, N3050 processor). There's lots I like, the size, screen, keyboard etc.. are all good, plus it runs Android apps which is good for offline iPlayer and things.
However, it's just too slow. Even with 2 or 4 tabs open it's quite laggy scrolling up and down. I tried to book an airbnb place and gave up and used my more powerful Windows laptop.
So what does everyone else use? Are 4gb ones significantly faster even with slow processors?
I'm not too fussed about fullHD, I tried it on a Toshiba and it just made everything too small on these tiny screens.
Not to answer the question (this is stw after all) but I noticed on my chromebook that some extensions caused the scrolling and general lag you described. Google translate was one iirc but there were others too.
RAM makes bugger all difference to speed, just the amount of tabs you can have open. Neither of my ARM ones have been anywhere near as bad as your describing, something is wrong or you don't have an adblocker 🙂
Out Acer chromebook can have 10s of tabs open and all are fine. I think something is not right on yours.
Apologies for the slight hijack...can anyone recommend an adblocker?something is wrong or you don't have an adblocker
the one with the most basic descriptive name is the best I have found. Useful for adding certain classes of non-ad frames if they are annoying.
hmm, not sure whats up then... It's fine on STW and gmail. Just more complex sites bring it to a halt. Facebook is unusable for instance. Maybe i'll do a reset.
i have an ABer installed on it.
Check out the 'Terms and conditions' below, you'll see why people are cagey discussing it...
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Facebook works fine on our chromebook - Acer 14 one, nothing special and it can run 10 tabs comfortably
mind you nemesis, what with the grot-service issues going on, there's almost an inevitability to naming products to protect users' reputations!
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Ok...I hadn't realised that.Check out the 'Terms and conditions' below, you'll see why people are cagey discussing it...
Are 4gb ones significantly faster even with slow processors?
It has been said that more RAM makes your computer faster. But this is only true (in any significant sense) if what you are doing uses up more RAM than your computer has. If that happens, it starts to save parts of RAM to disk when it's not using them, which makes it really slow. This used to be a problem back in the day, but is hardly ever an issue now.
Especially in your case, 2Gb is way more than enough to hold three or four browser tabs.
Chromebooks often have slow processors, that's why they are so cheap after all. But the OS is so optimised that it's not normally an issue. However if a webpage is a really bad one that has loads of crap scrips and animation etc on it, it might be the problem.