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Around Haswell (4th gen Intel), but I avoid using bloated software, which is extremely common, so YMMV.

rektide 5y ago
Haswell[1] definitely felt like a culmination of a lot in flight. June 4, 2013. The only reason I eventually upgraded was because I found a very cheap OLED 2-in-1 on ebay, and it made a better mobile system than the refurb Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139) 2-in-1 that I'd been using for a long long time. Up until then I still felt like the Core2 line - with it's Q6600[2] icon - was vaguely modern, & "fast enough". Haswell wasn't even that much radically faster, but it's platform/power-management/feature-list was so much better. Great chip, really great mobile chips. From January 7, 2007. That makes me think of the other "fast enough" chip that made me so happy, the Pentium M[3]. A Pentium III designed low power chip from March 12, 2003. Changed my idea of what a laptop could be. Got one a couple years later as my first work machine, lasted quite a while, no complaints. It's notable to me that even back in 2003 we had decent IPS 1080p displays and 8+GB ram notebooks, nice low power dual cores. Some weren't even that expensive! I want to say my friend got a decent Dell for <$1200 around then, so equipped. Last, the Abit BP6[4] motherboard with dual celerons was maybe not fast enough, but felt like a gobsmacking huge amount of power, was a huge change in life quality. At a price I could afford! Having dual cpus was such a huge upgrade. There's a bunch of other areas I'd consider too. I'm not sure if I've ever felt like video cards were enough, always wanted more. I'd love to get a fancy Optane drive. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentsfield_(microprocessor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentsfield_(microprocessor) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6

Haswell[1] definitely felt like a culmination of a lot in flight. June 4, 2013. The only reason I eventually upgraded was because I found a very cheap OLED 2-in-1 on ebay, and it made a better mobile system than the refurb Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139) 2-in-1 that I'd been using for a long long time. Up until then I still felt like the Core2 line - with it's Q6600[2] icon - was vaguely modern, & "fast enough". Haswell wasn't even that much radically faster, but it's platform/power-management/feature-list was so much better. Great chip, really great mobile chips. From January 7, 2007. That makes me think of the other "fast enough" chip that made me so happy, the Pentium M[3]. A Pentium III designed low power chip from March 12, 2003. Changed my idea of what a laptop could be. Got one a couple years later as my first work machine, lasted quite a while, no complaints. It's notable to me that even back in 2003 we had decent IPS 1080p displays and 8+GB ram notebooks, nice low power dual cores. Some weren't even that expensive! I want to say my friend got a decent Dell for <$1200 around then, so equipped. Last, the Abit BP6[4] motherboard with dual celerons was maybe not fast enough, but felt like a gobsmacking huge amount of power, was a huge change in life quality. At a price I could afford! Having dual cpus was such a huge upgrade. There's a bunch of other areas I'd consider too. I'm not sure if I've ever felt like video cards were enough, always wanted more. I'd love to get a fancy Optane drive. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentsfield_(microprocessor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentsfield_(microprocessor) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6