Splashtop app pc streamer processor power

How much memory does the laptop have? It's very likely that memory, not power, is the problem.

Edit: Sorry, I see now you said 2gb. The Splashtop app streams over wifi/Internet. Are you sure the problem isn't the Internet connection?

 

Do you mean becomes sluggish when viewing on your ipad? Because thats still likely to be your network connection, because the network can't keep up with all the data passing back and forth.

If you visit the sites directly on your laptop and they playback no problem, then its not your processing power.

 

how much of the CPU is splashtop using? (Check activity monitor on OS X or task manager on Windows)

 

And is the vast majority of that usage from the splash top process?

It definitely sounds like the CPU is the bottleneck.

 

I think the app does use quite a bit of computer resources. I have no problem on my 4gig core 2 duo, 2.4Ghz, unless I try logging in while rendering an image in my 3D software, a process which is itself pretty processor intensive. I usually can't log in until the rendering process is done. Otherwise, it runs well though.