I just bought a laptop from a friend of mine. Its about 2 years old. It's a Compaq Presario v5102nr series with a 1.8ghz sempron processor in it.
Mostly this laptop is going to be used for writing, but I was wondering about the performance. I own a desktop so I know what to expect from a desktop, but owning a latop is new to me. I did a full wipe and installed a fresh copy of XP, re-installed all the proper drivers, basically everything to get it up and running at 100%. Then I noticed this one problem that I wanted to ask about.
I noticed that when I tried to play a CD using either iTunes or Windows Media Player I couldn't really do much of anything else. In other words the laptop slowed down to a crawl and I couldn't even bring up the task manager to exit those programs.
I noticed I don't seem to have any problems when I rip the songs to iTunes as mp3s and just play them then.
My question is, Is that just a common thing among laptops? Or Could there be some hardware trouble involved? Or is just a sucky CPU? I just figured I would put this out there amonst people who know more about laptops than I do