I have only one experience with the 3 laptops I used since 4yrs ago. All of them stuck or I better say they make me wait because they are busy executing some process. This laptop I am writing with this post has frozen several times before I finish this text - Atom processor and 1 gb ram. I also happen to use a friends Laptop 8gb Ram and core i 5. It freezes too. I want a laptop that never tells me to wait even for 2 seconds. Any suggestion? Thanks. This happens usually as I open several tabs in firefox or IE. Like some 15+tabs. And I couldn't avoid that b/c I have to do several tasks at a time.
[Assuming Windows, you did not say] It is usually not the hardware, rather the software running and Windows. However, ditch the Atom, it is basic. The i5 w/8G should have no problems. - Typically, there will be a bunch of crap running when you think you are only doing one thing. Look at all of the programs that start with Windows. You don't need most of them starting with Windows. - Disable preftech - FF is known to have memory leak issues. Use Chrome or another browser. - Optimize the PC for performance, not appearance. - Reduce the PageFile size
Ya my operating system is Windows 7 now. I remember I once used startup manager to do what you mentioned - some yrs ago. I think it has some improvement. But is there a laptop that works flawlessly even if you open some 50 or more tabs in Firefox or IE or any other browser? All of the laptops I tried stuck or delay considerably.