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Sure chat apps and video playback are light, but what isn't is browsing the web. Web browsing has become a heavy task. If you tried to install a browser and t

Sure chat apps and video playback are light, but what isn't is browsing the web. Web browsing has become a heavy task. If you tried to install a browser and then use it today on a core 2 duo, you'd have a very bad time. And everyone browses the web, usually quite a bit.

NikolaNovak 4y ago
I can't speak for core 2 duo specifically, but I do tons of browsing on ThinkPad t420s (per parallel thread) which has Core i5-2540M. Depending on specific core 2 duo this shows as about 20 percent faster per interwebs - could be wrong. I find for browsing memory is king. Note I don't have any noscript or js killer, just pure browsers on windows 10.
cassepipe 4y ago
Core 2 Duo on a late 2007 Macbook running Firefox on Linux Mint. It's doing surprisingly ok. It would not work as a daily driver because waiting one second for a moderately heavy page is not something anyone is willing to accept nowadays but totally functional whereas browsing on a single core 2004 iMac is excruciating.
hallway_monitor 4y ago
Does it seem strange to anyone that this might be the case, that web browsing is more resource intensive than streaming and playing video? If true, is it because everyone builds SPAs for everything using heavy frameworks like angular and react?
- vintermann 4y ago
  If so, you'd expect boot times to not be affected. They are in my experience. I don't think SPAs are the culprit here.
windowsrookie 4y ago
I recently picked up a 2008 17" MacBook Pro. (2.5ghz core 2 Duo). It browses the web perfectly fine, plays YouTube, and runs VS code, all that the same time. The only website I've notice it struggles on is Google maps, but Google maps has a 2D mode than runs great. It did actually surprise me how well it runs and now I've been using it as my main machine for a few weeks.

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Sure chat apps and video playback are light, but what isn't is browsing the web. Web browsing has become a heavy task. If you tried to install a browser and t

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NikolaNovak 4y ago
I can't speak for core 2 duo specifically, but I do tons of browsing on ThinkPad t420s (per parallel thread) which has Core i5-2540M. Depending on specific core 2 duo this shows as about 20 percent faster per interwebs - could be wrong. I find for browsing memory is king. Note I don't have any noscript or js killer, just pure browsers on windows 10.
cassepipe 4y ago
Core 2 Duo on a late 2007 Macbook running Firefox on Linux Mint. It's doing surprisingly ok. It would not work as a daily driver because waiting one second for a moderately heavy page is not something anyone is willing to accept nowadays but totally functional whereas browsing on a single core 2004 iMac is excruciating.
hallway_monitor 4y ago
Does it seem strange to anyone that this might be the case, that web browsing is more resource intensive than streaming and playing video? If true, is it because everyone builds SPAs for everything using heavy frameworks like angular and react?
- vintermann 4y ago
  If so, you'd expect boot times to not be affected. They are in my experience. I don't think SPAs are the culprit here.
windowsrookie 4y ago
I recently picked up a 2008 17" MacBook Pro. (2.5ghz core 2 Duo). It browses the web perfectly fine, plays YouTube, and runs VS code, all that the same time. The only website I've notice it struggles on is Google maps, but Google maps has a 2D mode than runs great. It did actually surprise me how well it runs and now I've been using it as my main machine for a few weeks.