Michael, your system is definitely superior to a system of mine that loads Verbum/Logos in much less time than you report that yours does.
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Michael Greenwood:I have a Dell Ultrabook 14z with 8 gigs of ram and an i7 processor with an extra SSD for performance.
My Acer laptop has a 5th gen i7 (2015) vs. your 3rd gen i7 (2012), also 8 GB RAM, but a 5400 RPM, 1 TB HDD with no SSD cache. The i7 is low voltage, similar to an Ultrabook's and provides 7 hour battery life. Running with Windows 10 on battery, Logos has none of the "lag" you experience. For me this is down to build and components as I've never had a "slow" Acer amongst the four I've owned over the last 18 years. An after-market SSD + upgrade to 8 GB RAM improved performance on my last laptop (for 64 bit Logos) but I'm not in a hurry to get an SSD for this model!
Some desktop computers with 32 GB RAM and the fastest i7 with HDD also have "lag" issues with Logos!
Dave===
Windows 11 & Android 8