> I'm all for frugality but that seems like a lot of compromises for what is this person's main work laptop. Cool that it works; but why have a slow workhorse l

> I'm all for frugality but that seems like a lot of compromises for what is this person's main work laptop. Cool that it works; but why have a slow workhorse like that? That's exactly what it was in my case. Maybe it isn't so bad with Ivy bridge, but my previous laptop that I upgraded from was an i7 Sandy bridge T420s. It has the 1600x900 display, and I decked it out a long time ago with 16GB and a solid state. But still, it totally choked on youtube/twitch 60fps feeds if they weren't piped through streamlink+VLC. I'm pretty self-satisfied with how long I was able to stick it out, but when I got my first tech job last year, it just choked on video calls, necessitating an upgrade to something more reasonably specced.