4 ms·

What is the biggest current bottleneck? Going from HDD to SSD makes even a 5 year old laptop feel close to current. Is there something that would do the same

What is the biggest current bottleneck? Going from HDD to SSD makes even a 5 year old laptop feel close to current. Is there something that would do the same now?

berbec 9y ago
Sadly, no. Clock speed and multi-thread aware apps haven't gone far enough to give that feel of 'snap' we all got. I remember my Intel x25m so fondly. Even dual nvme drives in raid0 don't make thing hugely faster. I'm interested in what one of the 18-core i9s would be like clocked at 5ghz with our optane storage. Probably 1/3 of a second faster to load Firefox....
lstamour 9y ago
Depending on the CPU, RAM speed can be a big one. Laptop vs desktop still carries a performance cost due to the power requirements. NVMe SSDs are to regular SSDs what they were to hard drives, but there are limits, especially gigabit internet and slower CPUs. Honestly though, the biggest gains are generally in making software more efficient — like choosing Safari instead of Chrome, or removing unnecessary drivers and bloat from your system. Run a startup log or check your system’s logs for errors that might slow down your computer. Oh, and install browser-native adblockers on every device. :)
- gowld 9y ago
  As blockers can be very bad for performance because they are dumb. uBlock Origin is good though.
gowld 9y ago
Past 10 years is getting the same performance with less energy so you don't have fan noise and you get long battery life. Past 5 years is soldering everything to motherboard so you can't upgrade or replace anything without buying a new laptop.
ComodoHacker 9y ago
With Spectre & Meltdown patches, looks like we took a step back.
giancarlostoro 9y ago
M.2 SSD PCIe hard drives are amazing. You can boot Windows in under 15 seconds inside of a VirtualBox VM instance. So about the speed of what it would boot in if it were directly running off your SSD. PCIe SSDs can transfer data at speeds greater than regular SATA SSD drives.

What is the biggest current bottleneck? Going from HDD to SSD makes even a 5 year old laptop feel close to current. Is there something that would do the same now?

berbec 9y ago

Sadly, no. Clock speed and multi-thread aware apps haven't gone far enough to give that feel of 'snap' we all got. I remember my Intel x25m so fondly. Even dual nvme drives in raid0 don't make thing hugely faster. I'm interested in what one of the 18-core i9s would be like clocked at 5ghz with our optane storage. Probably 1/3 of a second faster to load Firefox....

lstamour 9y ago

Depending on the CPU, RAM speed can be a big one. Laptop vs desktop still carries a performance cost due to the power requirements. NVMe SSDs are to regular SSDs what they were to hard drives, but there are limits, especially gigabit internet and slower CPUs. Honestly though, the biggest gains are generally in making software more efficient — like choosing Safari instead of Chrome, or removing unnecessary drivers and bloat from your system. Run a startup log or check your system’s logs for errors that might slow down your computer. Oh, and install browser-native adblockers on every device. :)

gowld 9y ago
As blockers can be very bad for performance because they are dumb. uBlock Origin is good though.

gowld 9y ago

Past 10 years is getting the same performance with less energy so you don't have fan noise and you get long battery life. Past 5 years is soldering everything to motherboard so you can't upgrade or replace anything without buying a new laptop.

ComodoHacker 9y ago

With Spectre & Meltdown patches, looks like we took a step back.

giancarlostoro 9y ago

M.2 SSD PCIe hard drives are amazing. You can boot Windows in under 15 seconds inside of a VirtualBox VM instance. So about the speed of what it would boot in if it were directly running off your SSD. PCIe SSDs can transfer data at speeds greater than regular SATA SSD drives.