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I have an X220 with IPS display, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and love it.

However, increasingly, load times for website pages seem to be slow, and even after loaded scrolling can be jerky and not consistent. This can be on very fast connections for both download and upload, with cleared cache, and defragmented disk.

Could the issue the "old" Intel HD Graphics 3000 or might it be something else?

I try to live a good life.

The issue is probably OS and browser related. Fedora and Firefox with smooth scrolling turned off is the best scrolling experience I have had in quite some time. Under Windows you may want to try Internet Explorer, which is much smoother.

Try IE11 under WIN8.1 or IE11/Edge under WIN10. You can also use Chrome 3X(4X have broken smooth scrolliing) or Firefox, but these browsers some slower.
Im using WIN8.1 IE11 on X200t with older GMA4500MHD with excellent smooth scrolling and full 1080p60 .h264 decoding

I am using Windows 10. In limited testing, Edge does seem a bit better, with Chrome and then Firefox. I prefer Firefox but will try Edge for awhile and see if it provides a true...edge.

Edge seems a lot faster than Firefox on my Surface 3 tablet. But for a ThinkPad, I recommend Linux. I'm still using an R500 as my daily driver and it's perfectly fine with Debian Jessie (the latest stable version). Your X220 should run circles around my setup.

Disclosure statement: I have really grown to dislike Windows. It seems that Windows Update is constantly consuming CPU, and the decision to take control over updates out of users' hands irritates me to no end. Why can I manually update Debian in less than five minutes, but Windows drags on for hours in some Byzantine update cycle? In the end, the only reason I bought the Surface is because a) I wanted the active stylus to annotate PDFs; and b) Windows 10 sucks less than Android and iOS.

just sayin... upgrade the X220 to Intel Advanced N-6205 card, very low cost upgrade, doubles the internet speed experience.

no_man wrote:just sayin... upgrade the X220 to Intel Advanced N-6205 card, very low cost upgrade, doubles the internet speed experience.

Doubles the speed?? Do you know which wifi card he has in his machine?
Perhaps he already has a 6300 in there, the x220 Hardware Maintaince Manual lists several wifi cards.

It's not your X220. That is a very capable laptop. I suspect something is running in the background and consuming your CPU. Have you checked for other processes running when this happens?

FYI, there is no reason to defragment a SSD. Defragmenting is done so that data that comprises a file is physically located contiguously on the hard disk. This improves performance on a spinning hard disk because the head does not have to repositioned over different parts of the disk to read each fragment. On a SSD, the data is stored and accessed differently; the operating system doesn't control where the data physically resides and there is no read/write head that needs repositioning, so defragmentation does nothing.

Dump W10 and move to W7 or Linux (ie. LMDE is fast and easy to use). They are much more stable and fast.

Do not defragment an SSD because it causes unecessary writes and reduces its lifespan. Only HDDs benefit from this.

Windows 10 is not supported OS on X220.

jaspen-meyer wrote:

no_man wrote:just sayin... upgrade the X220 to Intel Advanced N-6205 card, very low cost upgrade, doubles the internet speed experience.

Doubles the speed?? Do you know which wifi card he has in his machine?
Perhaps he already has a 6300 in there, the x220 Hardware Maintaince Manual lists several wifi cards.

I'm just getting back to the thread. I have the N-6205 installed.

I ordered a new card, a 6300 for $11.88 from Amazon, and just installed it. It immediately recognized the card as though nothing had happened, except now I could choose 5G. The speed difference is quite noticeable, even graphics intensive photography forum pages load very quickly. Wow. Thanks for the recommendation about looking at the card.

Ultimate-n 6300AGN Pci-e Wirless Wifi For LENOVO THINKPAD / HP Intel 6300AGN Card 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4 Ghz and 5.0 Ghz Spectra 572511-001 Fru:60Y3233