2013-10-11, 19:02
I have this Acer Aspire 1640Z laptop which I got for free a long while ago. It had Windows XP Professional installed but I removed it because it took literally an hour to boot and crashed every time I tried to open a web browser.
So I installed Xubuntu Linux (12.04 if I remember correctly) and was happy for a while. BUT even this seemed very slow to me and kept hanging up constantly when using Facebook or some other regular web applications.
SO I did a complete format and installed Lubuntu 13.04, which is a lot faster already. I can work with this. But I did notice now (I didn't even really bother to check with the other OS's) that my CPU usage is usually almost 100% and always +70%. This is a bit off the scale I think. So what should I do? I'm not a big Linux expert. The computer seems to work okay now with Lubuntu but occasionally my Chromium tabs crash randomly and the Ubuntu repository seems to crash on startup. (Lubuntu's own repo works tho)
This computer has an Intel Pentium M 735 processor, other information can be found here: http://www.miniputer.com/Acer/Aspire_1640Z.html
At first I thought I was lacking RAM but it seems that I'm only using about 200-300mb so I don't think that's what keeps crashing my browser tabs...
So I installed Xubuntu Linux (12.04 if I remember correctly) and was happy for a while. BUT even this seemed very slow to me and kept hanging up constantly when using Facebook or some other regular web applications.
SO I did a complete format and installed Lubuntu 13.04, which is a lot faster already. I can work with this. But I did notice now (I didn't even really bother to check with the other OS's) that my CPU usage is usually almost 100% and always +70%. This is a bit off the scale I think. So what should I do? I'm not a big Linux expert. The computer seems to work okay now with Lubuntu but occasionally my Chromium tabs crash randomly and the Ubuntu repository seems to crash on startup. (Lubuntu's own repo works tho)
This computer has an Intel Pentium M 735 processor, other information can be found here: http://www.miniputer.com/Acer/Aspire_1640Z.html
At first I thought I was lacking RAM but it seems that I'm only using about 200-300mb so I don't think that's what keeps crashing my browser tabs...