I have an Acer Aspire model as referenced in the subject. It was nearly unusable for anything other than light tasks. When I began to try to use a program (Android SDK), realized it was unusable for anything of substance. Steps I took: Got restore disks - fully restored to baseline, as Windows 7 was corrupted on receipt; upgraded 4 GB to 8 GB; and installed a Seagate Fire Cuda 1 TB HD (hybrid). What a difference. However, when I went to install the Android SDK again, I noticed slow, clumsy performance, and keeping an eye on the resource monitor, narrowed it down to CPU.
So the question is at this point - is it possible to upgrade the CPU in this laptop and can I expect better performance, or is there some other tweak that I can do to improve performance. OR is Android SDK simply a processor glutton?
I did see some questions out on the forum here about upgrading the processor, but didn't see any final determination.
Any help would be much appreciated!