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Cost aside, is an i5 cpu and nvme laptop from 6yrs ago noticably underperformant enough to consider an upgrade under standard web browing and document editing
by _8j50 3y ago
Cost aside, is an i5 cpu and nvme laptop from 6yrs ago noticably underperformant enough to consider an upgrade under standard web browing and document editing workloads?
I think plastic-free metallic casing is a big deal for ewaste. But also, SoC convergence is a terrible thing. It would have been nice if components were modular.
Imagine if the 4g/5g, bluetooth and wifi modules if the billions of phones out there could be reused. Even CPU and memory might be reused on servers.
From a security perspective as well, the whole VM thing isn't working out. If server racks had like 100 cpus each with dedicated 4GB ram all in 2U, you can pin a process per cpu/related ram, but the best part is if the components are reused from consumer devices, they might be dirt cheap, and you can build a much more reliable setup where cpu/ram failing just means reduced capacity until you hotplug more.
- klooney 3y agoWeb browsing is rough on my circa-2015 laptop.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoI bet it was fine before React.js came along.
- _8j50 3y agoI have a 2015 MBP with only 16GB ram that is my reliable and sturdy daily workhorse. Curious if your storage is hdd and your OS is windows?
- klooney 3y agoSSD, Linux, an Intel i5.
- duskwuff 3y ago> the best part is if the components are reused from consumer devices, they might be dirt cheap Older hardware takes substantially more power to do the same work (and more power at idle); in a datacenter environment, this also means more power consumption for cooling. There's a case to be made for keeping old hardware in service where possible, but this isn't a situation where it makes economic or environmental sense.
- _8j50 3y agoBut consumer cpus use less power and having a lot of them means you can be granular with power usage and use a lot less power. I would also challenge that using more power is not a problem if your energy sourcre is nuclear or renewable.
- duskwuff 3y ago> But consumer cpus use less power and having a lot of them means you can be granular with power usage and use a lot less power. Unfortunately, this simply isn't true. There's quite a bit of "fixed" power consumption that doesn't scale with usage -- DRAM controllers, PCIe, Ethernet PHYs, etc. Not only does that power consumption not go away when a machine isn't being used, but it's all also incurred per machine that's running, so a network of many small computers will also use a lot more power on these constant loads. > I would also challenge that using more power is not a problem if your energy sourcre is nuclear or renewable. I would love to live in a world where that were the case. Sadly, it is not. Renewable does not mean free.