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My wife bought a 2008 iMac for $50 but never used it. One day my laptop broke and I put Manjaro Linux on the iMac, hoping I could use it for a few days knowing
by LeFantome 5y ago
My wife bought a 2008 iMac for $50 but never used it. One day my laptop broke and I put Manjaro Linux on the iMac, hoping I could use it for a few days knowing it would suck. The screen was nice but it only had 6 GB of RAM, a spinning hard drive, and a Core Duo processor.
Thing is, I still use it all the time. It is the computer I use most often for Zoom and Teams. Web browsing is very good. I use the latest releases of Firefox, Brave, and Edge. Much of my earlier learning around Docker and Podman was on that iMac. It worked great.
I find that older computers work better than underpowered but current stuff, at least with regards to price performance.
The one way that old hardware is worse I suppose is in power usage.
- nonamenoslogan 5y agoI'm still using a 2006ish ThinkPad with a CoreDuo in it and only 2Gb of RAM nearly daily, there is still a lot of computing power out there in some of these oldies if one is willing to try.
- leros 5y agoThe funny thing about some apps is they enable different strategies based on the hardware available. It's why a Chrome tab will use 1GB of RAM on a beefy machine but also run fine on a a machine with 1GB total RAM.
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