A little help

[harryefc84]

Just after some advice to help with my current setup if possible, I'm not the best with technology.

I had been using a laptop for a while now, with it connected to one screen and just using the screen with the laptop closed. It worked completely fine. Its a ACER - Aspire 3 15.6" Laptop - Intel® Core™ i5, 256 GB SSD.

A few weeks back Ive added 2 additional screens (so 3 in total) and connected them to the laptop via a USB docking station.

I like to have several desktops open and trade several races/markets at the same time, constantly switching between them over a long period of time. Problem I found was closer to the off I had a few occasions when I presume the laptop just couldn't cope and it became incredibly laggy. What would be the best and most cost effective way to improve this? A completely separate mini pc maybe to share the workload or is there something I could use to help the laptop cope? I presume its not an issue with the screens or docking station....

Thanks for reading, any advice is appreciated.

[xtrader16]

Sounds a little bit like you are overwhelming the laptops capabilities. You can have multiple screens but I'd just use the one desktop. Obviously. you'd be better of with a desktop pc. Ive just bought a Mac Mini PC and use Parallels to access windows as my 2013 iMac was starting to slow down. Just try and use one desktop.

[harryefc84]

thanks mate, yes I thought I was pushing it beyond its limit.

Ive got a MacBook Air M1 2020 which I had been using separately for things but not on betangel. This would cope better than the laptop via parallels?