New PC seems slow, why?

Hi Everyone, My neighbour has bought a brand new Dell Inspiron 3471 desktop:-

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/desk...sktop/cd347101

I went around there this morning to set it all up and it seems slow to me, I was installing Adobe reader and that seemed to take ages, any idea why?

Intel® Pentium® Gold Processor G5420 (4M Cache, up to 3.8 GHz) Is that a mobile CPU? Sometimes desktops have mobile / laptop CPU in them and that can cause it to be slow.

I guess a SSD might make things a bit faster but I'm not sure the expense.

Is there any software that I can use that will tell me why a PC is slow? Or is it down to benchmarks and comparing?

Thanks

Steve

Hi,
Win-10 Home.

Yes it's Win 10 Home.

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Thanks dalchina,

dalchina said:

A rough indication can be gained with the WEI
How to Check Your Windows Experience Score on Windows 10


I did like the WEI tool that used to be in Win 10, so maybe i'll give that a go, I'll see if I can find a portable version, I like portable apps
The specs indicate it has only 4Gb RAM which is a bit low.

Have a look at the task manager and see what the resource usage is.

When the PC is nominally idle, all figures should be low, and RAM use should leave some free.

Note that PC uses shared graphics memory.

You can also check the disk transfer rate (copying a large file back to the disk is a crude way) - or use benchmarking programs of course.

Hi,
10 home is the kiss of death of performance
10 does what it wants period no group policy control in the least bit.

stevec59 said:

Intel® Pentium® Gold Processor G5420 (4M Cache, up to 3.8 GHz) Is that a mobile CPU?

It's above a Celeron and below an i3. Introduced about a year ago. Quite modest and for laptops. Retails for circa 80.

Keep your expectations low.

Porthos said:

Home or pro makes no difference in performance on any machine.

Hi,
You are right there seeing out of the box both versions do the same thing until group policy/.... can tame 10 down so it doesn't soak up all resources to do what it wants too while the user wonders why there is nothing left for them to do basic chores.
10 pro or enterprise is just easier to tame 10 than home version.

About all 10 home can do is pause updates briefly but even that doesn't do a lot.