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Reasonably priced PC laptops that can run Chrome and Electron do exist. Just don’t buy bottom of the barrel Celerons, instead target an i5 or a Ryzen 5 (or mayb
by Kwpolska 4y ago
Reasonably priced PC laptops that can run Chrome and Electron do exist. Just don’t buy bottom of the barrel Celerons, instead target an i5 or a Ryzen 5 (or maybe a higher-end i3).
- TylerE 4y agoFrom my experience slow laptops are slow not because of the cpu (I mean, we’re not running a chess engine here…) but slow disks and slow/not enough RAM, which compounds the disk issue as soon as you start actively swapping… which in some of these is about as soon as the OS boots. Like, I just loaded up the Best Buy app and 3 of their top 10 selling laptops only have 4GB of RAM. I haven’t used a computer with that little RAM in over a decade.
- foobiekr 4y agoA lot of them are slow because of corporate crapware that they stuff onto them. A previous employer had an anti-malware agent that made 2018-era NVME MBPros as slow as harddisks.
- wmf 4y agoFor the price of Mighty you could... buy RAM.
- TylerE 4y agoIsn’t The ram on most laptops these days soldered in because it’s cheaper to build it that way then to actually build slots.
- Kwpolska 4y agoPeople want cheap things, and the manufacturers comply. But if you set a minimum baseline (i5/Ryzen 5 + SSD + 8 GB RAM), you’re unlikely to get a dud.
- roflyear 4y agoI'd say it's worth to go to 16gb but otherwise I agree.