I still work and browse the internet with an asus eeepc 1000he and g+ is barely usable on that machine. Javascript and html(5) are gobbling my CPU to display im

I still work and browse the internet with an asus eeepc 1000he and g+ is barely usable on that machine. Javascript and html(5) are gobbling my CPU to display images and snippets of text: typically post of maximum 3 lines and 7 displayed comments that are heavily dynamic for no real (imo) value for the end-user. Before that ajax everywhere and like buttons non-sense it wouldn't have been a problem. The irritating point is that density of information hasn't changed that much. On the whole I think it's a regression of the web.