So I'm pretty new to Linux. Only been running for abut 6 months and would like to try and get to the bottom of this issue.
Youtube videos can be choppy. Opening programs seem t be quite the task on this computer. I'll play super light games like runescape and will get probably 4fps on lowest graphic settings. Computer is oldish but my windows xp desktop from 2004 runs better than this.
Any help appreciated!
System Hardware Info:
description: Notebook
product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC (LW437UA#ABA)
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: 058C100003204910002620100
serial: 4CZ1201GBT
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=CO S=PRE sku=LW437UA#ABA uuid=6C89315F-4FD9-9EB2-EA9D-9C8E993A78FB
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 3577
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: 24.21
serial: PCAKMA38G0P8TD
slot: Base Board Chassis Location
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: F.20
date: 03/08/2011
size: 1MiB
capacity: 1984KiB
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1d
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 6GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: M471B5173EB0-YK0
vendor: Samsung
physical id: 0
serial: 3991FF64
slot: DIMM0
size: 4GiB
width: 8 bits
clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
*-bank:1
description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: SNY1333D3S9ELC/2G
vendor: Kingston
physical id: 1
serial: 3F1F3E39
slot: DIMM1
size: 2GiB
width: 8 bits
clock: 1066MHz (0.9ns)
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD C-50 Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 26
bus info: cpu@0
version: AMD C-50 Processor
serial: NotSupport
slot: Socket FT1
size: 1GHz
capacity: 1GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz

If anyone needs more info on certain things. Could you make a list and I'll reply promptly with computer info!Not sure what to provide but figured specs would be a good start

1GHz CPU yeah its going to be slow. I had a Atom 1GHz netbook, ran Linux fine, running movies, no way for most. With all of the crap they put into movies and on the net that needs to be downloaded and processed anything under 2GHz CPU is going to take time, and then there is the buffering that too takes time, dropped frames due to lag time etc..
if your MO is upgradeable for a different CPU (faster one) that is something definitely worth looking into, it is running DDR3 ram which is still useful and cheeper than DDR4 as well as the AMD CPU's too should be rater inexpensive as well.

EBay is where I got my CPU and RAM and MotherBoard and such for replacements to my laptop. I have an Intel CPU but I suspect that AMD CPU will not cost an arm and leg, maybe only two fingers. find something above 2GHz

look at page 19-20 for CPU's on your system in the PDF here
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02948186.pdf

still do a little more research before buying anything to upgrade to verify that it will work on that Motherboard.

PG 83 shows how to replace CPU BTW

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review...k.69185.0.html
in addition to the slow CPU, my guess is that there's AMD graphics in it and they don't run well with the open source driver.

outout ofplease.

Let's hope you aren't using Cinnamon - post this as well, a superset of the above. Install inxi in need.

Thanks for the info guys! I had no idea I had such a trash cpu. Sorry for delay btw. I was spending hours trying to backup data on my other computer before new cinnamon install.

@ondoho
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]

@sgy00
Dual core AMD C-50 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB bmips: 3991
clock speeds: max: 1000 MHz 1: 1000 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
CPU Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aperfmperf apic arat clflush cmov
cmp_legacy constant_tsc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de extapic extd_apicid
fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce
misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl npt
nrip_save nx pae pat pausefilter pdpe1gb pge pni popcnt pse pse36
rdtscp rep_good sep skinit sse sse2 sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock
syscall tsc vme vmmcall wdt

I am running cinnamon on both computers. Whats wrong with it? My other computer is 2.7ghz and its just as choppy. Is cinnamon a bad OS? Could you recommend a better one for my low performing systems? Tried Lubuntu once upon a time but I don't remember the results. I know Lubuntu on this 1.0 ghz laptop didn't show any benefits over Cinnamon.

ok.
cinnamon is not a distro.
linux mint is.
it is based on ubuntu.

my guess (!) is sth like this:
- cinnamon is not lightweight
- for some reason or other your gpu is not set up properly
- other factors might come into it, like slow cpu, not enough ram (browsing habits?) etc.

if i was you, my first step would be a web search with the found information:
ubuntu Radeon HD 6250
the first 2 results look relevant.

but before you start destroying your system, let's try to ascertain what exactly is lagging:
open a terminal and enter 'top' (or 'htop', even better).
it should be set to sort processes by CPU usage.
take a moment to figure out what it does.
now wait for the system to become "choppy" or do something you know to be demanding.
can you figure out what is eating the cpu?
share that with us.

yea. it's gotta be a slow generic video driver, since it was a lot faster in windows. search for the non-opensource video drivers for your video.

use handbrake to take one of your movies and have it re-sample it down to get some of that over head out of it then play it to see if that helped remove lag time in your movies.

connection too if slow causes lay time due to buffering etc...
and yes anything within the 1Ghz range is slow for today's internet movies and movies and such in general.

monitor your CPU speeds and loads and RAM/Swap usage while preforming tasks to get a general idea of how your system operates, install a lighter Linux distro and WM/DE, especially for your 1GHz CPU.