New laptop for uni student

Anne_Marie_2

Agree with the others, you'd just be throwing good money away. She really should change her habits, don't know how she can be bothered having 20+ tabs open at one time.
As others have said, back up to the cloud, and if any money has to be spent, then some speakers and a portable usb hard drive will be sufficient.

shortchanged_2

Has she got antivirus installed? Some of them are renouned for slowing computers down.

20aday

I wouldn't have thought Malwarebytes would cause too much slowdown in terms of performance but 20+ tabs open with that running in the background on a dual core Intel Celeron certainly won't help.

notanewuser

rubytuesday wrote: »

I bought my daughter a Lenova for Uni when her old Asus died a death and she has been very happy with it.

:doh:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/19/superfish_lenovo_spyware/

Anne_Marie_2

notanewuser wrote: »

:doh:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/19/superfish_lenovo_spyware/

To be fair, this has only come to light very recently, and from what I can gather, was installed for several months in 2014. If Lenovo are to be believed, it was installed on products shipped between Sept 2014 and Feb 2015, but have read other reports it was seen mid 2014.
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish

somersethillbilly

shortchanged wrote: »

Has she got antivirus installed? Some of them are renouned for slowing computers down.

McAfee certainly got "renouned" to something unprintable

20aday

somersethillbilly wrote: »

McAfee certainly got "renouned" to something unprintable

:rotfl:

I'll remember that next time someone asks for advice on an AntiVirus programme!

Poppy9

Okay I hear, it's her sh!tty browsing habits. I will tell her and when she's home for easter get someone to check it for bloat.

Thanks