Aspire Timeline 1810T extremely slow

Recently bought an Aspire 1810T from Best Buy and for some reason it is really slow. Realized that this laptop is super old as mine shows a manufacturing date of January 2010. Sales rep told me it was the latest from Acer but it clearly wasnt. I have no idea why they would have such an old laptop from 4 years ago still on sale but I can't return it as the sales rep gave a discount and wrote all sales final. ing scammer. well I can't do anything about that now, is there anything i can add to make some use of this laptop and not lag everytime I use facebook or youtube. flash is unbearably slow. my tablet has smoother video

 

Yea, you got scammed.

That machine is super old, and even at the time of launch it was quite low-powered on the CPU side. How much did you pay for it?.

The one thing you might do that might speed up your experience is to equip it with a SSD. The question is, how much of a bottleneck is your CPU (since it's a ULV dual-core from the penryn era).

For example, I'm selling a x200 with a full-powered core2duo and a SSD and it is fast enough to do serious multitasking, have tens of pages open, watch movies up to 720p very well. But it's got probably twice the clockrate on the CPU, and that may make it or break it.

I would suggest, if you can, burrow a SSD or purchase one that you can return even after you use it, and see if the machine achieves decent performance with it.

I would also consider, if the price you paid for the machine is bigger than let's say, 300 eur (and even that's a lot more than that machine is worth, since second hand i doubt anyone would pay more than 150$ for it), you could look into addressing a customer protection program in your country, if your government maintains such a program.

You should definitely go back to the company you purchased and speak to the manager. You say you were advertised a 'latest' generation machine, and it is blatantly not. They're trying to get rid of inventory, but that machine is 5 generations behind, it is heavily outdated and underpowered (although pretty).

You may also not have the most updated video drivers for the machine, and may resolve some of your problems by directly downloading chipset and video drivers from intel website.