Quote Originally Posted by ShortStack View Post
Ok, I'm on the phone with my boyfriend to and he knows a little more than me, so he was able to guide me through.. This is what it says about my processor and RAM: Processor 3500+ 1.79GHz, 448MB of RAM. Would it be wiser, and would I get more for my money, to just upgrade like my processor and whatnot, or just get a whole new laptop?
Yep thats your problem right there, Processor is old and bogging your system down. With some good tweaking and cleaning you can get it to run decent. Upgrading ram to 1gb which is 1000mb will help you see a difference almost immediately.

You can get newer laptops that are decently fast for 3-500$ and will do what you want and then some