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a mid grade 2010 PC with an SSD upgrade will still be extremely usable. Go 5 years to something like a Broadwell i7, and many people might not be able to tell
by basch 6y ago
a mid grade 2010 PC with an SSD upgrade will still be extremely usable. Go 5 years to something like a Broadwell i7, and many people might not be able to tell its 5 years old. I would expect that CPU to function fine for 5 more years. (albeit it no longer has support or security patches.)
The biggest improvement, from a most people perspective, in the last 5 years is power usage. They run cooler, and batteries last longer.
- magicalhippo 6y agoIndeed. I just picked up a laptop from my shelf the other day that had been collecting dust for years (literally booted it last in July 2017), as a friend needed a replacement laptop. The laptop was bought in 2011. It was a fairly cheap one then, and has a dual-core i3 with hyperthreading, and it came with an SSD. I added another some RAM I had laying around so now it has 8GB. After getting a fresh copy of Win10 on it, it's surprisingly usable. Webpages loads just fine, YouTube is accelerated so is smooth. I could totally use that for my daily laptop had it not been for the rather lackluster 1366x768 screen.