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you were using a 7 year old Laptop with a HDD in 2018 ? Some people don't seem to have any hardware requirements at all.. While i could tolerate a CPU from 2011
by kayoone 8y ago
you were using a 7 year old Laptop with a HDD in 2018 ? Some people don't seem to have any hardware requirements at all.. While i could tolerate a CPU from 2011, using it without an SSD feels so slow today, it's barely usable tbh. I switched to SSDs in 2009 in all my machines and never looked back, despite the price at the time.
- mikeyouse 8y agoYeah I don't have a good excuse for waiting except it was my wife's primary computer for the last few years while she completed grad school and I didn't use it much to notice how much slower it seemed as compared to a modern SSD-based machine. Definitely wish I had done it earlier now. It was an old work machine that I got to take with me when I left that job so it was far overspecced for casual use.. though it feels so much better now.
- haldean 8y agoNot everyone can afford a new MacBook when their old one works fine, no matter how much HN shames them for it.