My wife teaches microbiology online. Recently she noticed that her PC was really slowing down. It ended up that the PC was running two virus scanners. It was certainly better after uninstalling one of the virus scanners. However, it was still the slowest PC that we had, dual core, 2GB of memory with a 7200 RPM hard drive running Windows XP.
I ended up ordering a Dell Inspiron 7100XPS that was quad core and 6GB of memory with Windows 7. The real speed came when I replaced the hard drive with a SATA III controller card (6GB/sec) with a 160GB SSD drive (Crucial). She now has the fastest PC in the house.
I can't say enough how incredibly fast an SSD drive makes your PC. It is expensive but well worth the money.
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