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Whenever I pull out old machines I’m a little shocked at how responsive they are running a modern OS (Win10 or Linux), so long as the modern web is avoided. Any
by jwells89 3y ago
Whenever I pull out old machines I’m a little shocked at how responsive they are running a modern OS (Win10 or Linux), so long as the modern web is avoided. Anything with a Core 2 Duo or better is adequate for a wide range of tasks if you can find non-bloated software to do them with.
Even going back so far that modern OS support is absent, snappiness can be found. My circa 2000 500Mhz PowerBook G3 running Mac OS 9.1 doesn’t feel appreciably slower than its modern day counterpart for more than one might expect, and some things like typing latency are actually better.
- skydhash 3y agoI have a mac mini 2011 and it works great with Linux Mint. But load youtube and you’re in a world of pain.
- anthk 3y agoA Core Duo it's perfectly fine with an ad blocker: git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters
- ogurechny 3y ago“True UNIX way” solution to this would be getting the data from the Web non-interactively and redirecting it into some regular expressions to produce the only thing you want. Random example: https://github.com/l29ah/w3crapcli https://github.com/l29ah/w3crapcli
- nicbou 3y agoMy 12" Macbook was my main computer for 2022 and part of 2023. It ran smoothly for my workflow, even with a 4k monitor. However YouTube and Gmail brought it to a crawl. I had to sell it because Youtube Music slowed down my work.