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Thanks everyone for your helpful replies, delighted to hear all of that.

Hi, I recently helped a physiotherapy college student chose a new Dell Inspiron 15, 5515 laptop, with the following: Windows 10 Professional 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive 16GB DDR4 3200MHz The processor is: AMD Ryzen(TM) 7 5700U 8-core/16-thread Mobile Processor with Radeon(TM)...

Thanks very much for your reply Track Drew. I've done that with these results: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14097941 Everything else was closed on the laptop when the test was run, does this suggest that there is something running in the background slowing down the laptop? Thanks again.

My laptop often runs very slow. Specs below: Dell Latitude Intel Core i5 @ 2.3GHz 16GB RAM DDR3 Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 7) Novabench benchmark score is 849. Could you please give me some pointers on how to figure out why it is running slow? Thanks

Thanks creatve123 and whateverer for your replies, those are helpful and give some ideas for the direction to go in.

Thanks very much for your reply Michael, that seems like a very interesting book, will take a look at that.

I do some computer programming and web development. When learning how to use new software or a programming language, I find it frustrating that I don't understand how it actually works with the computer hardware. Do you have any suggestions, short course or book recommendations, for learning...