My brand new chromebook R14

Jsgreen15

Can anyone enlighten me why this new chromebook is slower than my old C720 which must be 6 years old? 

Jack22

1.Deactivating your offline sync

1.Open Google Drive, and click on the “Settings” cog icon in the upper right
2. Under “General” settings, uncheck the box that reads “Sync Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings files to this computer so that you can edit offline”

2.Eliminate suspicious Chrome extensions

1. Open the Chrome menu in the toolbar
2. At the bottom of the drop-down, hover over “More Tools,” and on the new drop-down, click “Extensions”
3. From this screen, you can either uncheck the “Enabled” box, to temporarily deactivate extensions, and if you’ve decided it’s time to say goodbye to one, click the trash icon to the right of it.

3.Powerwashing a Chromebook

So please try the above steps , it will fix the issue.

Jsgreen15

Thank you.  I've deactivated sync on Google drive..  I've also disabled some of the defaults.   I've not powerwashed as it's less than a week old. 
I'll see how it goes thanks
John