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I have an older laptop with an hdd. It always was under powered but still usable for things like streaming to a tv every once in a while. The latest Win10 upd
by seniorThrowaway 5y ago
I have an older laptop with an hdd. It always was under powered but still usable for things like streaming to a tv every once in a while. The latest Win10 updates have it taking minutes to run a search or context switch. Feels like we are getting into phone territory of forced HW upgrades for everything now.
- boba7 5y agoI'm upgrading computers in my University with 8GB of ram and ssd and poof, 2011 computers run W10 just fine once again.
- smhenderson 5y agoThis was my experience as well updating computers at a company I recently joined. Changing to an SSD had the most impact, although a lot of these machines already had 8GB of RAM. There are still a handful around that now have an SSD but still 4GB of RAM they came with; these are also better now, usable anyway.
- at-fates-hands 5y agoMy company did the same thing a while back. I remember two years ago having to get in the office at least 20 minutes before my z book laptop would fully boot. They upgraded all the developer grade laptops with 32GB of RAM and SSD's. Still take a good 5-8 mins to boot, but compared to where they were? Light years better!
- asdff 5y agoI did this to all my family members macbook pros a few years ago, back when apple let you do that sort of thing to your hardware. These machines are 10 years old and still running modern stuff just fine.