Improve perfomance/battery while using opus on laptop

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Hi,

I have the dual license and I use almost the same opus' settings on my personal computer and on my laptop. Both of these have a SSD (the laptop's one is worse) and an AMD processor, FX-8320 and A8-4555, respectively.

The performance difference between these two is visible when using opus: starting a new lister and openning "my computer" always takes a lot more time on the laptop, the same occurs when I open a new group of several tabs on a dual lister.

To try to improve the performance on the laptop, I disabled the automatic folder size calculation on local disks (this is enabled on the desktop). I would like to improve both performance and battery life, so I searched here and looked at the FAQs for which settings I should alter to do that, but I found nothing.

Should I worry about optimizing opus for a laptop?

My laptop's SSD is a USB 3.0 enclosure for a mSATA SSD. I can boot from this using my desktop and, when I use my desktop with the laptop's OS, opus behaves as well as when using the desktop's OS, this makes me think that origin of the slow down is really the processor, so I don't have great hope that something can be done.

Thank you.

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This is a very open ended question so it's difficult to answer. There are certainly things you can turn on (like folder size calculation) which will slow things down, but guessing or listing all the possible ones would be tricky.

Anything that requires loading extra data, icons, graphics, directory listings, file contents, etc. from disk could slow things down, particularly with a slow drive or drives which go to sleep quickly, as most machanical HDDs aimed at laptops will do.

Third party shell extensions can also slow things down, and that opens up a whole area of things which are impossible to predict but can have a large impact.

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Thank you, leo, I appreciate your help.