A 2016 Acer Aspire ES 15 (ES1-531-C1BY) is inferior in almost every way than a cheap 2013 Toshiba?!

Michel88

I bought this thing back in 2016 or 2017 I think for 600 bucks. I should have ran away screaming when I saw it has just 4 GB of RAM! Looking at other forum posts here even the 6 GB versions have a severe lag. Meanwhile my 2013 cheap Toshiba Satellite C855-2JP that I bought for 300 bucks has 6 GB and to this day runs much faster. The only issue it has is it's fan is not much good and doesnt have a SSD.

So the Aspire has a 2-core 1,6 GHz Intel Celeron processor with DDR3. Shall I downgrade it to a 32-bit Windows 10 version (it now runs a 64-bit one)? Apparently anything 64-bit is too much for it.

How can Acer release such a product in 2016 which is inferior than a low-tier Toshiba from 2013? Now that one, the Toshiba has been fantastic. I'm surprised they went out of the laptop business and Acer is still here! This is my first and certainly last Acer anything.

JackE

Stay with Win10-64 bit. It will run much faster if you uninstall not just disable any non-Microsoft virus scanner running in the background like Norton, McAfee, Malwarebytes, AVG, etc. Windows Defender and MaliciousSoftwareRemovalTool are all most folks need these days.  Jack E/NJ