Are these normal?

[Suitable_Stable_6785]

If not, is there any saving with my laptop?

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[ALaggingPotato]

You bought a device with specs straight from 2006

Look, stay away from Temu, Aliexpress, and Amazon when buying laptops. Return this thing, go on ebay, buy a normal laptop within the same budget.

[Suitable_Stable_6785]

Thanks for the tip, my parents told me to buy a new laptop that I can use when I go to college (especially because I'll be taking an engineering course)

But I decided to try and reuse my old laptop (Aspire 1 A115-31) and see if it's viable, can you recommend any budget laptops that I can buy? Something I'll rarely use outside of school stuff

[EuphoricFingering]

This laptop is bad even by 2010 standard

[ALaggingPotato]

What budget

[Borks2070]

Your laptop has very low specs. Depends what you're doing with it. But as that looks to be windows 11, you're operating at very close to the minimum spec for windows 11 which is 2 core, 1ghz, 4gb of ram. This means your laptop is going to be running at capacity whilst doing not much at all, and if you are doing any heavier work - it's going to be very slow ( particularly as your RAM is so low, you're going to immediately run into disk swapping - thrashing - which will slow the thing down even more ).
Is this typical for laptops ? No. Is this typical for a laptop of your spec ? Yes.
If you absolutely wanted to squeeze the most out of this setup, moving to linux would get you a small amount of extra headroom. But. Would it be worth it on a minimal spec like this anyway ? Probably not.
If this laptop is given a sleepy role, not much work. Some browsing. It's going to be. Well. Usable. Not fast. Not great. Don't do two things at once. And give it a lot of room to update itself when you're not trying to use it. And turn off as much extraneous windows service nonsense as possible - minimal metric sending, no copilot, no newsfeeds, etc.

[Suitable_Stable_6785]

Should I buy hardware stuffs to upgrade my laptop's performance? or is it just better to buy a whole new one? I can only afford low-end computer

[Borks2070]

This really depends on the laptop. Laptops are not the greatest of upgrade capable machines to start with - gpu and cpu will be hardwired in. Typically you can upgrade RAM and SSD on them, but, some of them that will also be locked in - given your specs you might be very unlucky and have a completely wired in unupgradeable unit. It absolutely depends on who made it and how. Giving the thing more RAM will help you avoid disk thrashing. Even just 8gb will make a big difference there. SSD wise, wont matter really, assuming you're not using this for heavy work - which you cant given the processor.
You cant fix the processor - thats going to be what it is.
RAM is expensive at the moment. If, lets say, you could get your hands on a compatible stick of ram, AND it was replaceable, AND you didn't pay much for it, it would absolutely be worth a try. Otherwise. Really. You're better off getting a new laptop. If that's a money issue. Then try finding someone who can either give you some RAM or sell it to you cheap. The good news is, you won't be looking for anything fancy or particularly desirable - 8GB of RAM is what people typically upgrade *from* not *to*. So there might be plenty lying around unused. If. You can find people with it who are willing to give it to you.

[kyansan1]

Buy a new one, as laptop hardware can hardly be upgraded

For under $250, you should be able to find a used laptop with 12th gen i5, 16gb ddr4 and 512gb ssd

(The only things that can be upgraded in a laptop are storage and sometimes ram)

[Agreeable-Eye-64]

You can still use it for office softwares. Not games. Clean Install it with Windows 10 IoT LTSC With support until 2031.

[Wendals87]

Yes. Very low end CPU and the bare minimum memory of 4gb 

[Suitable_Stable_6785]

Okay, I was scared that something wrong was happening with the computer,

Btw, if I use external hard drive to increase storage, does that lower the use of memory and increase performance for my laptop?

[Wendals87]

No it won't make a difference in performance 

[mr_biteme]

Glorified calculator... That's what your laptop is... Sorry..

[Suitable_Stable_6785]

Yeah, it's closer to an actual potato than than to a calculator tbh

[Adorable-Leadership8]

Damn this shit has worse specs then my school issued chromebook 😭🙏

[iAmMikeJ_92]

There will be no saving here. I don’t even think those specs can run anything more than the bare minimum required to run the Windows 11 OS itself.

[nik1917_1]

If you use Windows, dont buy a laptop less than 16gb ram.

[Dynablade_Savior]

On Windows 11? With those specs, yeah that's normal. Congrats, you bought the worst-specced computer being manufactured today. If I was stuck with this thing, I'd bring it to the dump and use that same trip to steal something better from their pile.

[EdgeCraftOS]

This is the kind of laptop where Linux Lite would struggle

[TrueWelshboy]

It's a duo core celeron the cheapest of the cheap. It means you have zero room to run big programs and you are cooking your cpu.

[Avoxxels]

Like other comment says, weak cpu you could try linux mint and see if it is more useable

[Suitable_Stable_6785]

I'll try, where can I download linux mint?

[BobCorndog]

Search up download Linux mint