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It's quite eye-opening how much lower-end hardware is out there. Too many users to ignore have either 2 cores, or 4GB RAM, or 768px resolution, 32-bit OS, and h
by pornel 6y ago
It's quite eye-opening how much lower-end hardware is out there. Too many users to ignore have either 2 cores, or 4GB RAM, or 768px resolution, 32-bit OS, and hardly anyone has a discrete GPU.
- apocalyptic0n3 6y agoRandom anecdote: we recently had to launch a fairly large site that targeted 800x600 because that was the resolution of the monitor the old guy who owned the company used and he refused to believe anyone was using anything different. It was really frustrating to work with them, to say the least.
- hulitu 6y agoI wish it would be more of this "old guy". A lot of developers have the latest and the greatest machine. That's why the programs are slow for us, mere mortals. It is a pity that x86_64 allows more than 4 GB of RAM. We could have had much better SW.
- Tajnymag 6y agoAt least part of those machines could be VMs running in CI/CD. However, you are right that we shouldn't overestimate the client capabilities in the global scale. There's a huge market in developing countries, where every working computer is taken as a blessing.