It's just about impossible to quantify the "performance it not good" element. Relative to what?
It is very possible the CPU is simply outstripping the ability of the hard drive to keep up - in a system with a conventional, spinning hard drive, that will be the slowest element -- and this is a very low-end system. It may well be you're running applications the system just isn't capable of running well.
A Dell engineer can only run the same diagnostics you can -- if your system shows no faults, you may want to consider either upgrading it to a solid state drive, or if it's new enough, upgrading to a more capable system than this low-end model provides.
I have the same problem with mine. Since to date I've only used it for email and browsing the web I hardly buy into the "it's too low end" argument presented by another poster. This is a flaw. Even a low end hard drive should be able to keep up with Zero CPU usage. The disk usage is unusually high and it appears to be due to some sort of background task that is always running. I'm not at all sure that an SSD solves this issue rather than just masking it.
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November 13th, 2017 11:00
It's just about impossible to quantify the "performance it not good" element. Relative to what?
It is very possible the CPU is simply outstripping the ability of the hard drive to keep up - in a system with a conventional, spinning hard drive, that will be the slowest element -- and this is a very low-end system. It may well be you're running applications the system just isn't capable of running well.
A Dell engineer can only run the same diagnostics you can -- if your system shows no faults, you may want to consider either upgrading it to a solid state drive, or if it's new enough, upgrading to a more capable system than this low-end model provides.
CoopV
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November 22nd, 2017 10:00
I have the same problem with mine. Since to date I've only used it for email and browsing the web I hardly buy into the "it's too low end" argument presented by another poster. This is a flaw. Even a low end hard drive should be able to keep up with Zero CPU usage. The disk usage is unusually high and it appears to be due to some sort of background task that is always running. I'm not at all sure that an SSD solves this issue rather than just masking it.
LTIAM
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January 21st, 2018 08:00