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I was using Core 2 Duo just fine as daily drivers with Linux until a year ago. I upgraded for different reasons. With 8GB RAM, they will run 3 separate Web br

by neilv 2y ago

I was using Core 2 Duo just fine as daily drivers with Linux until a year ago. I upgraded for different reasons. With 8GB RAM, they will run 3 separate Web browsers at once, still using only a minority of the RAM, and are just fine with pretty much any Web site. (Maybe it helped to be using uBlock Origin, which reduces both page load bulk, and also eliminates some very invasive behavioral spying that can be resource-heavy.) One of the ~10 Core 2 ThinkPads I recently I sold went to a business involved with used science lab equipment. The rest of the sales seemed to be for probably personal use.

Rinzler89 2y ago
>I was using Core 2 Duo just fine as daily drivers Eh, everyone has a different subjective definition of what "just fine" means. In case of an emergency I guess could make do for a little while with one, but I came back once to my old Core 2 Quad system out of nostalgia and while it does works cand can do things, compared to my newish Ryzen laptop the difference when browsing the web and multitasking is absolutely night and day, but the day is on Pluto. Once you get used to a modern fast machine with 8 cores at 5GHz and NVME ssd, I just could never imagine going back to a core 2 duo and spinning rust machine today, Linux or not. The difference is staggering. >With 8GB RAM That definitely makes a difference, but it's a bit disingenuous, since stuff like 8GB RAM or SSDs were not the standard for Core 2 Duo machines though. Most of those machines you'll find in the wild tend to have more like 1-4GB RAM and spinning rust. That's really tough to daily drive.
- neilv 2y ago
  I also use powerful contemporary hardware, so I have a basis for comparison. What software you run, and how you use it, are also big factors.
  - Rinzler89 2y ago
    >What software you run, and how you use it, are also big factors. The Web is the same for everyone. So is stuff like browsers and webapps like Teams, G-Suite, Office 365, Youtube, Spotify, Facebook, flight bookign sites, etc. The UX difference between those pages/apps running on a core 2 duo and a modern machine is stratosferic. Even bigger when you have same other stuff in the background like a torrent downloader, dropbox client, messengers, etc. You are free to say it doesn't bother you, but the difference is definitely there and palpable for everyone. Of course, if your core 2 duo laptop is the Ship of Theseus with everything on it maxxed out and only the chip being the old original part, sure I can believe the difference is smaller, but like I said, that's not really representative for most core 2 due systems of their era which definitely show their age today.

by neilv 2y ago

Rinzler89 2y ago

>I was using Core 2 Duo just fine as daily drivers Eh, everyone has a different subjective definition of what "just fine" means. In case of an emergency I guess could make do for a little while with one, but I came back once to my old Core 2 Quad system out of nostalgia and while it does works cand can do things, compared to my newish Ryzen laptop the difference when browsing the web and multitasking is absolutely night and day, but the day is on Pluto. Once you get used to a modern fast machine with 8 cores at 5GHz and NVME ssd, I just could never imagine going back to a core 2 duo and spinning rust machine today, Linux or not. The difference is staggering. >With 8GB RAM That definitely makes a difference, but it's a bit disingenuous, since stuff like 8GB RAM or SSDs were not the standard for Core 2 Duo machines though. Most of those machines you'll find in the wild tend to have more like 1-4GB RAM and spinning rust. That's really tough to daily drive.

neilv 2y ago
I also use powerful contemporary hardware, so I have a basis for comparison. What software you run, and how you use it, are also big factors.
- Rinzler89 2y ago
  >What software you run, and how you use it, are also big factors. The Web is the same for everyone. So is stuff like browsers and webapps like Teams, G-Suite, Office 365, Youtube, Spotify, Facebook, flight bookign sites, etc. The UX difference between those pages/apps running on a core 2 duo and a modern machine is stratosferic. Even bigger when you have same other stuff in the background like a torrent downloader, dropbox client, messengers, etc. You are free to say it doesn't bother you, but the difference is definitely there and palpable for everyone. Of course, if your core 2 duo laptop is the Ship of Theseus with everything on it maxxed out and only the chip being the old original part, sure I can believe the difference is smaller, but like I said, that's not really representative for most core 2 due systems of their era which definitely show their age today.