New Z710 Win 8.1 is slower than my 8-year-old AMD!!!!

Hi...
I got my brand-new Z710 a week ako. I haven't finished setting it up yet & I've already got weird problems... My AMD PC, which is running win 7 pro (64b) boots to the login screen 2x as fast as the Z710 - no lie - both units side by side. That simply shouldn't be. I wasted my money on the z710 if this is the speed it runs at with an i7 & 8G Ram. I understand that I've got to get used to W8.1, but regardless... I got an error 0xc000021a yesterday, the wireless link decides whenever it wants to connect... I've done a little searching & there are a number of articles that talk about taking out the "Intel-Dynamic-Platform-Thermal-Framework" being at fault & to take it out - except I can't find it. I called Lenovo support & they seemed fixated on my wireless & trying to blame my router when the z710 is the only one having connectivity troubles. Going hardwire doesn't make it any faster.
I don't recall having this much trouble with a new laptop out of the box. Not sure if anyone has any ideas or thoughts on this? I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to do next.
Any feedback appreciated!
Thanks,
RR.

Hi…
Hopefully this message goes through. Apparently, my Lenovo community login user name is suddenly not valid anymore. I’ve been on a number of forums over the years & I gotta say this one is one of the tougher ones to use.
I don’t have traditional BIOS in this machine - it’s that “UEFI”. I went through it & there’s really not much in there. It took a while to figure out how to get in - can’t imagine how fun updating it would be if that were possible.
All the windows updates ran, updates for the video went through… don’t have any other peripherals attached yet & hadn’t started loading any programs yet because of the trouble.
Sine my initial post, I’ve been staying off wifi, got my programs loaded & getting far less crashes. That said: IE just crashed this morning just trying to open it.
At work, I deal with process control computers & servers - have to deal lots with I.T. & their contractors & ya, they give us new & recycled machines all the time - built from images that aren’t always up to date, so - video drivers 6 months old, etc. but for a brand new OEM machine, this thing should be a lot more solid & certainly quicker than the old AMD.
I’ve done some other reading/investigating… another popular theory is to create a new admin account & blow away the original. Not sure how that works, maybe I’ll try it… I did that once on my W7 o/s I it created more trouble than it solved.
Very frustrating to get a new machine to have it not work right & can’t even get the manufacturer to help you. On the Lenovo site there appears to be some software diagnostic tools available - maybe one of those could help…
Thanks for the reply… the only one I got in a week or so of posting. I had given up. more so now that my account seems to suddenly be invalid.
RR.

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Model Identifier:          MacBook2,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          667 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version (system):          1.17f0
Serial Number (system):          W87258NAYA3
Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0019E33F8E1B
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
this is all my hard ware info

After Effects Render SLOW - Slower than my old PC

I am using a new 1 month old 20" iMac, 2.0Ghz with 4gb DDR2 RAM, running OS X Leopard. Adobe After Effects CS3 is rendering really slow, and I mean like the same as my PC. Also the same with Premiere Pro, it renders really slow and I have tried different formats too, in premiere pro it took 2 hours to render a 5 minute video (saved to .mp4 640x480 pixels, end size was 20mb). This is wayyy to slow.
I compared my Mac with my old PC running Windows XP, it is pentium 4, 3.2Ghz with Hyper threading technonlogy and 1.5 GB DDR Ram. I tested rendering andrew kramers 3d room tutorial, I downloaded the project file. I only chose to render some of it and the old PC was FASTER than the Mac by around 15-20%. BUT, the mac was ONLY using 6% of the 3gb (it only recognises 3 gig not 4 but I dont mind that too much) and the PC was using 60-70% of the 1.5GB (thats using more RAM than the mac) So why can't I get the Mac to use more RAM when rendering, and why is it slower??? It is faster at EVERYTHING else, well the ram preview is about the same.
How can I get my mac to use more of the RAM and why is it rendering and previewing the same if not SLOWER than my 5 year old PC?
Any help would be awesome, thanks
- Dillon

RAM allocation is dynamic, you cannot enforce anything on that end. AE takes what it needs and no more. I would think that your issue has to do with the graphics card/ chipset, so my first suggestion would be to make sure you have updated your AE to the 8.0.2 patch. Secondly, run a software update for your Mac. If neither of this applies and brings any betterment, disable the AE_OpenGL.plugin. Simply delete it or move it outside the AE directory. Most certainly your issues hinge on your graphics hardware, so one of the previous recommendations should yield a noticable effect.
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