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Try using a 20-year-old machine, even a freshly installed machine running contemporaneous software is painfully slow compared to a modern econobox.
by taneq 6y ago
Try using a 20-year-old machine, even a freshly installed machine running contemporaneous software is painfully slow compared to a modern econobox.
- brazzy 6y agoI have a desktop PC that I built from cheap components 10 years ago (first generation core i3). It doesn't feel particularly slow at all using most current software.
- sumtechguy 6y agoYou may just be used to it? I just did an upgrade this year to something way more current. Using my old computer feels 'sluggish'. Last year this time I would have said the same as you about that same computer. The new computer is from cold power off to useable desktop in under 5-10 seconds. The old one was more like 60. If the computer is serving your needs then there is no issue really. For me it was some new bits of software just did not cut it on the old one.
- brazzy 6y agoNo, I have my pretty new work laptop as a comparison. Maybe I'm just not using any really resource-hungry new software.
- pjmlp 6y agoNo need for contemporaneous software, for many people a 20-year-old office of some kind is more than enough, plus email. :)
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI have an old XP laptop in my office, which I keep around because it still has a serial port. Every couple of months I have to use it and I'm always a bit unsettled at first by how responsive everything is because modern software has made me so use to everything feeling like molasses.