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My personal laptop is a Lenovo X200s from 2008 or 2009 with 8GB RAM. I use it to write words, read PDFs, do some software development (most often C and "vanilla

by rvense 7y ago

My personal laptop is a Lenovo X200s from 2008 or 2009 with 8GB RAM. I use it to write words, read PDFs, do some software development (most often C and "vanilla" web stuff), design electronics in Kicad, and casually browse the web... and I'd be happy with it as my only computing device forever, except for some websites it's starting to be a little slow, especially a well-known site that's meant for exchanging messages under 500 characters. There's some irony there.

KozmoNau7 7y ago
Mine is an X220s, so slightly newer than yours, but still a modest i3, upgraded to 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and dual-band WLAN. With a new 9-cell battery, I get ~6 hours of battery life, and it's fine for general browsing with a decent number of open tabs, even a few games (Darkest Dungeon and some emulated SNES games). As long as it keeps ticking and I can get whichever spare parts I need on eBay or something, I'm not going to replace it anytime soon. The only reason I have a more powerful desktop PC (still ~2011 vintage) and don't just use the X220s in a dock, is that it it struggles with a 1440p external monitor (full HD is fine, though) and I sometimes like to play more graphically intense games.
- DeathArrow 7y ago
  >As long as it keeps ticking and I can get whichever spare parts I need on eBay or something, I'm not going to replace it anytime soon. Good luck with that as the Javascript crowd are in competition to slow the web as much as they can.
  - KozmoNau7 7y ago
    I generally try to stay away from the worst offenders, most sites I use are relatively lightweight, like HN and various forums. Even Youtube isn't too bad, as long as you force it to not use the broken Polymer rendering on Firefox.
higerordermap 7y ago
Do you use an ad blocker like UBlock Origin? That speeds up web by significant margin. I also used that to disable JS by default and enable only when needed, works well for me.

by rvense 7y ago

KozmoNau7 7y ago

Mine is an X220s, so slightly newer than yours, but still a modest i3, upgraded to 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and dual-band WLAN. With a new 9-cell battery, I get ~6 hours of battery life, and it's fine for general browsing with a decent number of open tabs, even a few games (Darkest Dungeon and some emulated SNES games). As long as it keeps ticking and I can get whichever spare parts I need on eBay or something, I'm not going to replace it anytime soon. The only reason I have a more powerful desktop PC (still ~2011 vintage) and don't just use the X220s in a dock, is that it it struggles with a 1440p external monitor (full HD is fine, though) and I sometimes like to play more graphically intense games.

DeathArrow 7y ago
>As long as it keeps ticking and I can get whichever spare parts I need on eBay or something, I'm not going to replace it anytime soon. Good luck with that as the Javascript crowd are in competition to slow the web as much as they can.
- KozmoNau7 7y ago
  I generally try to stay away from the worst offenders, most sites I use are relatively lightweight, like HN and various forums. Even Youtube isn't too bad, as long as you force it to not use the broken Polymer rendering on Firefox.

higerordermap 7y ago

Do you use an ad blocker like UBlock Origin? That speeds up web by significant margin. I also used that to disable JS by default and enable only when needed, works well for me.