Frontend, laptop freezing, dead or will it live?

Question

laptops

Have a nice evening guys. The point is this. I am engaged in web development, which brings me small, but money. Currently limited in opportunities and financially.
There is a stationary pitch that copes with a bang, but for my main job (work not in the field of web development) I take a laptop to incite projects and learn new things.
Asus X52J typewriter. On board i3, 4 RAM and generally greetings from the past, but, in general, such parameters are sufficient, as I know from experience, but nothing helps me, the machine is incredibly freezing and stupid. The main symptom is 100% disk usage. I installed both UNIX systems, various assemblies, and Windows. Equally. I work through gulp and browser-sync, the browser update in the background is constant, the Maxthon browser, because it is the most lightweight. Whatever he does, the work is questionable. I checked the hard in different software - nothing. I noticed that when the system is under load, if you hit during the frieze in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe disk, it helps. Self-hypnosis? Coincidence? Because the disk is alive. In general, is it possible to adapt this machine to the development front? What is needed to identify the problem, but it is, I think. And is it worth it to do it at all, can anyone share the experience of a poor start-up developer?

Answer 1

It is possible that the system does not have enough RAM, and therefore actively uses the swap file. Beating the hard disk is a very bad idea.))
1. In the operating mode, check the amount of available RAM through the manager. If there is less giga left - buy a second bar, most likely it can be installed.
2. If you want even faster - put an SSD. For God's sake no QLC on a working machine