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Is my laptop too slow to play online games?
The system requirements for the Mac Pirates game aren’t very specific (i’m assuming it’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online because that’s all i could find for the mac): Mac: * OS 10.4.6 (Tiger) * PowerPC G4 or any Mac with any Intel processor * 512 MB RAM * 400 MB free disk space * Broadband connection
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New laptop too slow? optimize it for free
With laptops becoming affordable more people are purchasing these low priced gems for their homes. But once they get their new jewel home they are often frustrated with its performance. Then the obligatory call to tech support is made by an angry consumer trying to figure out why there new laptop is slower than the Pentium “m” that it replaced.
Manufactures dirty little secret is that they load up these notebooks with trial software “bloatware” in hope that the customers will pay for it when trial is over and unfortunately the software usually affects the computer’s performance. What is funny is that this marketing tactics does not work usually, – tech support tells them how optimize or they find out on their own how to get rid of the bloatware – this is especially a factor when it comes to sub $500 (affordable) notebooks.
The very first thing I do is on new laptop is get rid of the crapware trials and other software I feel not needed. (even before the back up because I don’t want delete trials again after a restore) Depending on how much is loaded it can be painstaking process, have spent over an hour uninstalling software in the past, but lucky for you a free program called Pc Decrapifier: http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/download, can do all of the dirty work for you.