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There'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 attributin

There'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 ago
That'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 ago
  Your 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 ago
    Yeah it depends what you think is useful of a laptop I guess. Can it open some websites still yes.
    - yencabulator 4y ago
      You're missing my point. The chip didn't "age", the chip is roughly as it ever was. Software bloated.
      - ge96 4y ago
        Yeah I understand what you're saying eg. websites now are MB's in size. Maybe I missed the point of this article "revive". edit: another random anecdote, I bought a palm top that was released in the late 90's and while it's cool/nostalgia, that's another example of a pretty much useless thing in today's needs/software-hardware compatibility idk, I hoard a lot of my old phones... I feel bad just discarding them since they still work... but what are you going to use them for, maybe wire them up and try to use them as a cluster idk.

ge96 4y ago

That'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 ago
Your 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 ago
  Yeah it depends what you think is useful of a laptop I guess. Can it open some websites still yes.
  - yencabulator 4y ago
    You're missing my point. The chip didn't "age", the chip is roughly as it ever was. Software bloated.
    - ge96 4y ago
      Yeah I understand what you're saying eg. websites now are MB's in size. Maybe I missed the point of this article "revive". edit: another random anecdote, I bought a palm top that was released in the late 90's and while it's cool/nostalgia, that's another example of a pretty much useless thing in today's needs/software-hardware compatibility idk, I hoard a lot of my old phones... I feel bad just discarding them since they still work... but what are you going to use them for, maybe wire them up and try to use them as a cluster idk.