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I can't imagine myself using such old hardware. It is cool and I like it(old thinkpads are awesome) but the slowness would hit me every time I do something a b

I can't imagine myself using such old hardware. It is cool and I like it(old thinkpads are awesome) but the slowness would hit me every time I do something a bit more intensive(like browsing the web with hundreds tabs). Maybe it is related to the fact that now I have really fast hardware. Also it really depends on your use case. I have a VM heavy workflow which benefits from the insane amount of RAM I have in my laptop and the number of cores.

chasil 4y ago
If you are sensitive about the Intel Management Engine, the original Core 2 Duo/Quad systems are the last where it could be fully disabled. Anything later will forcibly shut down after 30 minutes if (at least a fragment of) Intel's closed & bug-ridden monitoring code is not present. I ran me_cleaner on a few of these systems, and I do all my finances with them running OpenBSD (usually on q9550s). Yes, this effort to run old hardware is worth it for me. Below are the bios images that I was able to produce: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233 https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233
yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> a bit more intensive(like browsing the web with hundreds tabs). Maybe if you have hundreds of tabs active, but I have literally over 5,000 tabs in Firefox on one of my machines and that's 5 to 10 year old hardware with I think 8GB of RAM. (Aside: yes, I know I have a problem, but the point is that it works)