🖥️ “I Thought I Needed a New Computer… Turns Out I Needed a New System”

Angela Hall

6d • Wins

Tuesday I was about 30 seconds away from buying a new desktop tower.

Why?

Because my pages were loading slow.

Canva was lagging.

Zoom felt glitchy.

Everything just felt… heavy.

And my brain went straight to:

“My computer must be outdated.”

So instead of guessing, I did what I teach inside Automated CEO:

I asked AI a diagnostic question, not a vague one.

My first prompt was:

“Where do I find the specs for my Windows 11 desktop PC?”

ChatGPT walked me step-by-step to pull the actual system info, and I pasted the results back in.

That’s when things got interesting.

Here’s what I was actually running:

i9 processor
128 GB RAM
Multiple GPUs
Tons of storage

Basically… a monster machine.

So I followed up with the next logical prompt:

“Here are my specs. I’m thinking about getting a new tower because everything feels slow. Is this actually a hardware problem?”

That changed everything.

Instead of saying “maybe,” it asked me for the one thing people never check:

“Run a speed test and give me your download, upload, and ping.”

So I did.

My download and upload were fine…But my ping was spiking into the thousands of milliseconds.

That means every click, scroll, and tab refresh was literally waiting seconds before it could even start loading.

Not my computer.

Not my RAM.

Not my CPU.

My browser was quietly DDoS-ing my own internet connection.

🧠 My Browser Was Running a Small Country

Across three monitors I had:

100+ tabs
Multiple Gmail accounts
Client portals
Google Docs
Google Sheets
AI tools
Facebook Messenger
Asana
Zoom
Canva
Streaming services
And about 47 things I “might need later”

Each tab wasn’t just sitting there.

My browser had become my:

CRM
Memory system
Project manager
Financial hub
AI lab
Content studio

And it was running all of it at once.

So the next prompt was:

“If it’s not my computer and it’s not my internet speed, what’s actually causing the lag?”

The answer was brutal and simple:

too many live tabs = too many simultaneous internet connections.

🧠 The Real Fix

We didn’t “close everything.”

I said:

“I’m not willing to just shut all my tabs. They’re how I remember things. What will work?”

So we built a system instead.

Step one:

Install OneTab.

Then I did something most people never think to do with AI…

I didn’t just ask for advice.

I fed it my reality.

I went monitor by monitor, browser by browser, and pasted what was actually open:

Money tools
Client portals
AI tools
Content systems
Websites
Streaming
Admin
Projects

And ChatGPT categorized them into:

Live work
Client workspaces
AI toolbox
Money & ops
Reference vaults
Archives

Client A got her own workspace.

Client B got her own.

Client builds got their own.

AI tools got their own.

Money, health, content, ops - all separated.

We repeated the process for every monitor and every browser until nothing unnecessary was running in the background anymore.

Everything was still one click away -but only what I was actually using stayed awake

Within minutes:

Pages loaded faster
Zoom stopped glitching
Google Sheets felt smoother
My brain felt calmer

Same computer.

Same internet.

Different architecture.

🧩 The Automated CEO lesson

Most entrepreneurs don’t have a hardware problem.

They have a systems problem.

They use:

Tabs as memory
Apps as duct tape
Browsers as operating systems

Then they wonder why everything feels slow and exhausting.

The real power of AI isn’t that it gives you answers.

It’s that it lets you:

Ask better questions
Run diagnostics
Follow logic
And fix the real problem instead of guessing

I didn’t upgrade my computer.

I upgraded my CEO operating system.

And it changed everything.

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