Laptop extremely laggy when using Photoshop etc

[samanthaconlon]

specs:
Chassis & Display Lafité Silver Aluminium Chassis: 13.3" Matte Full HD IPS LED (1920 x 1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i5 Dual Core Processor i5-6200U (2.30GHz, 2.8GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM) 8GB Kingston SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 510 [Pentium] | INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 520 [Core™]
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 500GB SEAGATE HYBRID SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
mSATA/M.2 SSD Drive NONE


Hi, I've had this laptop for only 2 months now, previously I had this:

Chassis & Display Genesis IV: 15.6" Glossy HD LED 16:9 Widescreen (1366x768)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3230M (2.60GHz) 3MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card Intel® HD Graphics 4000 Video Memory Technology up to 1.7GB
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE

With the new laptop I was expecting to run programmes extremely smooth, my last laptop wasn't that great specs but I could use lightroom, photoshop, google chrome and listen to music with zero problems. As soon as I edit photos on my new laptop it starts to slow everything down, I've had blue screen of death twice already, everything freezes when I try edit a large raw file (still only around 5mb per photo and only edit 1-2 at a time). I expectedd so much more of this laptop for the money I paid. I've been instructed by pcspecialist to update my drivers on the intel website, which I did, nothing change except I stopped getting blue screen, everything is still so slow and freezing, my music sometimes skips repeatedly as if the laptop can't handle the pressure of doing two things at once. Thinking of returning.

 

[ubuysa]

Did you order it with an OS installed or did you install one yourself? What OS are you running? What you're describing sound like software issues rather than a hardware problem.

 

[thisisevilevil]

specs:
Chassis & Display Lafité Silver Aluminium Chassis: 13.3" Matte Full HD IPS LED (1920 x 1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i5 Dual Core Processor i5-6200U (2.30GHz, 2.8GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM) 8GB Kingston SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 510 [Pentium] | INTEL® HD GRAPHICS 520 [Core™]
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 500GB SEAGATE HYBRID SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
mSATA/M.2 SSD Drive NONE


Hi, I've had this laptop for only 2 months now, previously I had this:

Chassis & Display Genesis IV: 15.6" Glossy HD LED 16:9 Widescreen (1366x768)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3230M (2.60GHz) 3MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card Intel® HD Graphics 4000 Video Memory Technology up to 1.7GB
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE

With the new laptop I was expecting to run programmes extremely smooth, my last laptop wasn't that great specs but I could use lightroom, photoshop, google chrome and listen to music with zero problems. As soon as I edit photos on my new laptop it starts to slow everything down, I've had blue screen of death twice already, everything freezes when I try edit a large raw file (still only around 5mb per photo and only edit 1-2 at a time). I expectedd so much more of this laptop for the money I paid. I've been instructed by pcspecialist to update my drivers on the intel website, which I did, nothing change except I stopped getting blue screen, everything is still so slow and freezing, my music sometimes skips repeatedly as if the laptop can't handle the pressure of doing two things at once. Thinking of returning.

Hello good sir.

While I'm not sure how much exactly you are trying to multi-task on your setup, when these issues is happening, keep in mind that your current hard-drive is very slow. It might be an SSHD, but imo, those drives can really confuse consumers sometimes. They think they are getting a fast hard-drive, while they are really just getting a very small taste of an SSD drive. In the end, your drive is just a 5400RPM drive, which is a huge bottleneck. Besides this, the CPU in your new system (The 6200U) is actually only on par with your previous CPU (i5-3230m). The "U" in your new CPU, stands for "Ultrabook". These CPUs uses a very low amount of power, to enable extended battery life, but largely at the expense of performance. Take a look at this CPU Benchmark list as well: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmark-List.2436.0.html - You can see the 6200U is actually estimated to be slightly slower than the i5-3230M, even though the i5-3230m is over 2 years older than the 6200U.

The only thing in your new laptop that is better than your previous one, is actually the onboard GPU. Intel has made significant improvemens to their iGPUs with the new generations.

I suggest you do the following: Try monitoring your system resources, while you work with several applications using Windows's own resource monitor. Press the Windows button + R to get the "run" popup. Type in "resmon" to open the resource monitor. The next time you feel your system is slow, keep an eye on your CPU usage + disk I/O while working.

 

[dn88]

I'm thinking of ordering the Lafite for a similar requirement (small scale photo editing on the move with Lightroom/Photoshop, a few web browsers open and playing some music).

However, I don't want to run in to the same lagging issues as the thread starter.

Would a Samsung EVO 500Gb SSD likely solve these issues, as opposed to the SSHD?

Also, would spending £70 extra on the i7 processor show a marked improvement on the i5?

 

[SpyderTracks]

I'm thinking of ordering the Lafite for a similar requirement (small scale photo editing on the move with Lightroom/Photoshop, a few web browsers open and playing some music).

However, I don't want to run in to the same lagging issues as the thread starter.

Would a Samsung EVO 500Gb SSD likely solve these issues, as opposed to the SSHD?

Also, would spending £70 extra on the i7 processor show a marked improvement on the i5?

SSHD's aren't all they're cracked up to be, the HDD portion is a slow 5400rpm and therefor speeds suffer when the buffer isn't being used, which is a lot of the time.

A Samsung Evo is arguably the best SSD you can get and will definitely improve performance over the SSHD, by quite a distinct margin.

The i7 is well worth it if you can afford the jump in price.

 

[darbyjack]

Both CPUs are apparently almost identical in performance, see these:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-6200U+@+2.30GHz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3230M+@+2.60GHz

Also both laptops GPU's aren't too different either.

Basically you've got a new laptop that is almost the same performance as the last one, except there is a much higher screen resolution of 1920x1080, so sadly the newer machine will be slower, especially when editing photos in lightroom. Probably better battery life though.

Unfortunately getting a faster hard drive won't solve the issue you are describing.