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Pentium 4 stopped being a benchmark for desktop usability a long time ago. Any JS website will bring it to its knees.

• KronisLV 5y ago
  > Any JS website will bring it to its knees. Maybe that's a problem in of itself? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law There is nothing intrinsically different about computing from, say, 10 years ago. You might still want to read some text on a webpage, click on a few buttons and have them do something, maybe fill out some text fields, or even upload/download a few files. Instead, you get "visual experiences" with overcomplicated UIs with similarly overcomplicated underlying technologies (edit: not to say that there aren't benefits to technologies like Vue/Angular/React, however they aren't "necessary" to get things done most of the time, in many cases even server side rendering without JS would be enough), all of which waste all of the resources that you'll give them, especially if you don't have ad-blockers on which means that you'd get bogged down with dozens if not hundreds of malicious scripts. Of course, this is a bit akin to shouting at the cloud, but nobody should be too proud about the state the modern web is in and use it to justify wasteful hardware and software requirements: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
• hedora 5y ago
  With an ad blocker, I've found the next bottleneck for web browsers is the GPU. I'd guess a pentium 4 with the equivalent of a five year old, well-supported integrated Intel GPU would be fine.