Slow SurfacePro4

It seems the RAM in these cannot be upgraded.

I use it for reading books, (pdfs) so would
splitting the books into several volumes speed
things up?

P

Peter Jason wrote:
It seems the RAM in these cannot be upgraded.

I use it for reading books, (pdfs) so would
splitting the books into several volumes speed
things up?

P

The SSD is replaceable.

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.ne...WY4UyEp.medium

The RAM are the four chips soldered down near the CPU.
The RAM are likely ball grid array chips with the contacts underneath.

The CPU has two silicon dice, the end one being the GPU.

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.ne...1LLxwcDk.large

More info here.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Micr...Teardown/51568

It would take one hell of a book, to clog 4GB of RAM :-)
It would take maybe eight copies of War and Peace.

I see absolutely no reason for it not to be able to
read books at a decent rate. Are there any throttles
in the software ? Is your AV railed ? Is the Search Indexer
running ? Is an OS Upgrade in-flight?

Win10 only sorta-needs 1GB of RAM. The other 3GB of
RAM should be available for applications. Win10 will
operate in as little as 256MB (you can test this by
dialing down the RAM with Win10 in a VirtualBox VM),
but you wouldn't be able to open Firefox with
only 256MB in the VM environment. But I did open
Notepad without complaint.

Such designs will thermal throttle when the casing
of the unit cannot dissipate the heat. Not holding
it in your lap, might offer a slight improvement
in burst CPU performance. if a CPU has a 2 watt SDP
(scenario design power), it can't burst for too long
without heat becoming a problem. That still should
not prevent reading a book. The bursts to change a
page are extremely short. The resulting "blip" shouldn't
last long enough to affect the CPU temp.

You can run CPUZ if you want to watch the equipment
while it works.

http://almico.com/images/chartstab.gif

http://almico.com/speedfan452.exe

One reason Speedfan doesn't need constant updating now,
is there is some sort of interface in the BIOS that
exposes the hardware monitor in a portable way. I'm not
up on the details of that, or what is provided.

Even opening Task Manager and seeing whether the CPU
cores are railed, is just as good as bothering with
Speedfan. Using Speedfan allows a user to "correlate"
something they are doing with a computer, to the
temperature spikes in the Chart option.

Paul