Can my laptop be too weak for internet browsing?

[Attila]

I have a 4+ yrs old Asus laptop - Celeron T3100 processor, Intel GMA4500M video, 2+2GB (upgraded) DDR2 memory, 128GB SSD (upgraded), Windows 7 Home Premium, Comodo Personal Firewall, Microsoft Security Essentials.

I recently noticed that complex / multimedia-rich websites (eg YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, One Green Planet etc) work slower than before, especially if I have them open on more than one or two tabs. Sometimes the whole browser temporarily becomes unresponsive for 1-5 seconds. Videos / Flash ads often not play very smoothly.

The problem persists in Firefox, Opera, IE, Chrome. I restored the original drive image (Windows), let Windows to install updates, then I installed the browsers and software. No joy, those websites are still not faster.

There is no problem with those websites on my desktop PC (AMD proc / Geforce video gaming PC) or my wife's PC (Intel I3 proc / Radeon video gaming PC). I also have and Asus Eee netbook, that struggles with those sites even a lot-lot worse than my laptop.

Also noticed, that my laptop won't play full HD movies smooth (and my netbook won't even play standard definition movies smooth) - so I guess their video chipsets not powerful enough.

Based on all the above I got a gut feeling that maybe by now, as websites have more and more images/videos/Flash/interactive content, my laptop's (and especially my netbook's) processor, or rather video, is not enough for these websites anymore? Do I need a better laptop?
... and it is not only just video! A great example can be this site: http://www.sky.fm/newage
My CPU usage is moving between 0% and 8% (idle). Then I load the above site into a browser. As soon as the music starts playing the CPU usage jumps to quite high:
Internet Explorer: CPU usage in the 20% - 30% region
Opera: CPU usage in the 30% - 45% region
Firefox: CPU usage in the 55% - 75% region
Google Chrome: CPU usage in the 80% - 95% region
:-(

[Stevö©]

That is only a single core processor with low cashe memory and a basic video card. I would use Firefox not chrome and disable both Flash and Java for quicker surfing but you probably won't want to do that. Use an adblocker that will limit the amount of flash advertising hogging bandwidth, but having say more than 2 tabs open with flash running will cause you problems, that hardware is not good enough to play full HD, maybe just 720P I would disable all programs your not using or starting with Windows.

[Alan917]

As you are aware your laptop is not the greatest spec but should be OK to browse the web and watch YouTube clips.

What can you do?

1 Remove Firefox, Opera and Chrome leaving just IE. Update to the latest version of IE compatible with the OS.

2 Go through all the software and uninstall what you do not need, especially toolbars.

3 Remove any 'special effects', keep it simple and set for 'performance'

4 Use a lightweight anti-virus, Microsoft Security Essentials is good. Get rid of all other AV programs.

5 Use Adobe Flash Removal Tool to completley remove all traces of Flash. Reboot the computer then re-install Flash from Adobe website.

[Muhammed]

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