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> "unusably slow". There are still many who are satisfied with less Who exactly are satisfied with less than a 15 y/o notebook? Why are they on (more than) 15
by justsomehnguy 2y ago
> "unusably slow". There are still many who are satisfied with less
Who exactly are satisfied with less than a 15 y/o notebook? Why are they on (more than) 15 y/o notebook and not on a smartphone?
> I suppose it depends on what they intend to use it for.
15 notebook is enough to be a glorified typewritter or tty, or to watch some movies (forget about HEVC, x265 and even x264 is troublesome)
Intel Core i5-540M @ 2.53GHz vs AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
Clockspeed 2.5 GHz 2.7 GHz
Turbo Speed Up to 3.1 GHz Up to 3.7 GHz
# of Physical Cores 2 (Threads: 4) 4 (Threads: 4)
Cache L1: 128KB, L2: 0.5MB, L3: 3MB L1: 256KB, L2: 2.0MB, L3: 4MB
First Seen on Chart Q1 2010 Q1 2020
Single Thread Rating 1159(-49.8%) 2307(0.0%)
CPU Mark 1808(-75.7%) 7431(0.0%)
- nopelynopington 2y ago> 15 notebook is enough to be a glorified typewritter Glorified typewriter is a perfectly acceptable use case. Plenty people out there who just want to write a novel or thesis or email or look up a recipe or Wikipedia. Not everyone is gaming and watching 4k video
- justsomehnguy 2y ago> look up a recipe Do you even internet? Just try it yourself on some 2c/4t machine from 2010. Sure, you can do it, but it would be an exercise in patience.
- userbinator 2y agoI've done it on even older machines and it's perfectly fast. Maybe it's because I don't use bloatware browsers and keep JS off by default.
- justsomehnguy 2y agoAh, that settles it. You forgot what you aren't everyone else.