Laptop Hardware Performance and Windows 10

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We recently bought three Dell latops - Dell Inspiron 5559.
Dell Inspiron 5559 i7-6500U 8GB RAM 1TB HDD AMD Radeon R5 M335 2GB 15.6 Inch Notebook
N5559-I76500-812GFX
Windows 10; Microsoft Office 2016.

The problem is that the performance of the laptops are terrible. I don't want a couple of seconds of lag opening every single basic Windows function like Explorer and Control Panel. 10 s to open Excel. I don't think it's unreasonable, since my six year old R10k i7 laptop (Windows 7) does everything fluently does wonderful things like opening Explorer instantly (WOW LOL).

I've searched and found a few pointers like disabling the crap stuff like Speedstep.

Any insight please? And frankly I won't appreciate comments like it's Dell and you should've checked review. I know it didn't get stellar reviews. I was forced to buy Dell and get certain specs. It seemed like the best option.

Edit: Engineering company and I don't expect things like AutoCAD and other hardware intensive engineering simulation programs to run like a charm. I don't open seven programs at once. I get this performance with no programs open except Dropbox.
 
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I find if you let it run a while, it starts to cache some of the stuff... so eventually the start up of the apps will be quicker, but the simplest solution is a SSD...
 
NorthPole said:
I find if you let it run a while, it starts to cache some of the stuff... so eventually the start up of the apps will be quicker, but the simplest solution is a SSD...
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Just about to say this. We run laptops with pretty much the exact specs (HP's & Dells).
a Fresh install, along with all the updates win 10 needs to do, it takes a little while for it to work at optimum efficiency.
Obviously a SSD will be 1st prize, but dont worry, they'll come around :p
 
I have a brand new Dell Precision 3510 i7 with an SSD and 16gb ram and I have also never been this frustrated by a computer. I am ready to load windows 8.1 again.
 
It's probably Windows updates running in the background - or issues with some installed program (such as anti-virus software).

Running Windows 10 x64 fine on 4GB of memory, Core 2 Duo P8600.
 
A colleague of mine recently purchased a Dell laptop with an i5 processor and 8GB ram and Windows 10. The performance was terrible at first, but I advised him to format and do a clean Windows install before accumulating too much data he needed to backup. This did wonders for his new laptop! He now is a very happy Dell user. Just make sure the Windows is activated before you do the format and clean install. Download the Windows 10 media creation tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Then create your own bootable installation media, and I would recommend using a USB flash disk.
 
Format all and run Snappy driver installer when windows is cleanly installed.

Speedstep is a good feature to have installed so keep that enabled and make sure the balanced option is enabled, im using W10 and I find it great compared to W8.1.
 
+1 to SSD. I recently installed just a cheap SSD into my mothers laptop (a pretty crappy one at that), she can't get over how much faster it is :D
 
Thanks for the replies. The IT is my side job so finding time when the people are not doing work is difficult between my heaps of work. It took 8 months to convince them to upgrade from ****ty i3s that wasted everyones time. To convince them to spend more money... joy.

I'll do the fresh installs. Buy myself a bloody SSD and take it with me if I leave the company at some point. Can't get stuff done like this.

@Johnatan56 Three new laptops with the same performance issues.
 
Tanarri said:
Thanks for the replies. The IT is my side job so finding time when the people are not doing work is difficult between my heaps of work. It took 8 months to convince them to upgrade from ****ty i3s that wasted everyones time. To convince them to spend more money... joy.

I'll do the fresh installs. Buy myself a bloody SSD and take it with me if I leave the company at some point. Can't get stuff done like this.

@Johnatan56 Three new laptops with the same performance issues.
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I3 with a SSD is much faster than I7 with a 5400rpm drive for general work :)
 
My SO uses a Chromebook with an Atom + SSD and it's quick, silent and lasts the entire day. Raw spec doesn't mean much unless it's put into context of the user. i7's are mostly i5's with HT, which unless you have heavy multi-threaded workloads won't benefit you, while an SSD will make everything seem snappy regardless of what you're doing.
 
Rickster said:
Format all and run Snappy driver installer when windows is cleanly installed.

Speedstep is a good feature to have installed so keep that enabled and make sure the balanced option is enabled, im using W10 and I find it great compared to W8.1.
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Why would you recommend a 3rd party "driver installer" instead of OEM drivers provided by the manufacturer?
 
Waylander said:
Why would you recommend a 3rd party "driver installer" instead of OEM drivers provided by the manufacturer?
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Snappy driver installer uses OEM drivers, its the best driver installer I've ever used and it's 100% free.

Give it a try.
 
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