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Hm… I would say in 2013 when I bought a laptop with an SSD.

• julian55 5y ago
  I agree, for me computers mostly became fast enough when SSDs became standard.
• joe-collins 5y ago
  I'll second this. Getting an SSD was the last big "oh shit" upgrade. Now the only things I recognize myself waiting for are really heavyweight programs, like yes, gaming.
  • conductr 5y ago
    Third. Still using my 2013 mb air. I’ll probably replace soon but not because I’m having performance issues.
    • cpach 5y ago
      I still use mine too! It has started to feel slow though compared to newer Macs. Not sure why.
• dsr_ 5y ago
  While there is often a perceptible difference between a SATA SSD and an NVMe, it's nothing compared to the gap between a spinning disk and any reasonable SSD. If you're doing anything on the web, a good adblocker makes a big difference. If you have 'enough' RAM, more doesn't help. For most tasks, CPUs are wasted most of the time. 2 3Ghz x86-64 cores are good enough not to be noticed on a general desktop. Latency remains more noticeable than bandwidth at modern levels: the difference between 100Mb/s and 1Gb/s is only noticeable when doing bulk transfers. All that being said... most of what we use our end-user computers for is wasteful overhead. Too many layers.
• shiado 5y ago
  Same here. It was criminal how long Apple sold 5400rpm drives in macbooks.