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I've done it but chip aging is a thing. It sucks. They get to a point where they can barely open a website or only have a couple tabs open. If we're talking ol
by ge96 4y ago
I've done it but chip aging is a thing. It sucks. They get to a point where they can barely open a website or only have a couple tabs open.
If we're talking old ones from 2010s
- anthk 4y agoUse Ublock Origin and ZRAM.
- ge96 4y agoYeah I do (use UBO). In my case I was trying to use it for web development eg. run npm/react and yeah it was bad. This was a Rockchip 1.8GHz Processor (C100P) I had better luck with a 2.16 GHz celeron (Toshiba Chromebook 2) Other thing is say you visit YouTube and the tiles don't all immediately load in, that's an example of lowering performance (because time moves on, web grows).
- anthk 4y agoGet Libredirect, and at Libredirect 's settings mark the box which says something like "find another instance if the first one it's down".
- javchz 4y agoYes a no. A Sandy bridge computer (something like a 2500k i5) it's still perfectly capable to run as a home computer (and even light game, or pro tasks). And if you add a light distro to the mix and a GPU, it's even better than a new Celeron cpu you can get from current gen Intel.
- squarefoot 4y agoI do not own any Chromebooks yet, but have a bunch of Chromeboxes, which essentially are the same thing in desktop small form factor, and liberated all of them over the years using the unscrew+script method described at https://mrchromebox.tech https://mrchromebox.tech. They may not be very fast, especially the older ones, though still have their use. I turned for example a Asus CN62 (CPU: i3-5010U) to a Kodi media center, and it flies compared to the Raspberry Pi4 I used before. Only drawback compared to the RPi is the lack of native CEC support, which I solved by adding an external Pulse Eight dongle. https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter
- yencabulator 4y agoThere's a computer in the corner from 2012. It has 64 GB of RAM and a 3.2 GHz 6-core CPU. It'll outperform many modern machines. Most of what you're attributing to "chip aging" is software bloat and assumptions of e.g. hardware acceleration for GUI animations. (The rest is mostly increased thermal throttling because the cooling systems generally do get worse over time. But not by that much.)
- ge96 4y agoThat's different I was talking about (though not specified) chromebooks such as Toshiba Chromebook 2 and C100P (I really like this ones body) but I only use it to open a couple tabs... can't do say development work on JS with it (react) the install/build takes too long. edit: granted for the TCB2 I was able to run a VM in it (virtualbox even) so that's something. In general I am not the person to drop $2K on a new MBP or something. I like buying old flagships, the issue is their battery is usually not that great anymore and the replacements are usually fake (bad capacity/faked eeprom). Last edit... even a past flagship though starts to suck eg. I have a 2015 i7 MBP and you can start to notice it struggle (dev work again) regarding getting hot/fans, slowing down. it is clean
- yencabulator 4y agoYour argument sounds like you bought hardware with some specs, and current day popular software assumes you have higher specs. No chip aging there. Don't blame the chips for things they didn't do.
- ge96 4y agoYeah it depends what you think is useful of a laptop I guess. Can it open some websites still yes.
- yencabulator 4y agoYou're missing my point. The chip didn't "age", the chip is roughly as it ever was. Software bloated.