Oh this isn't good

Laptop's dying. When I got my Apple iBook G4 a few years back, I got extra ram and other features to make it run well with graphic applications. I got my daughter a basic MacBook a few weeks ago with nothing added to it. So today I compared the 2, and her basic laptop smokes my machine in every way. Good news, because I can replace this without spending huge amounts of money. Although I don't want to spend right now. So everything works exept the Return key and the key above it with the backslash that I never use. But the return key is not a good thing to be without, and explains why this post is done in one paragraph. ugghhhh.