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I tried to use an ancient Asus Chromebox as my main desktop for a while, maybe three years ago. Old dual-core celeron processor, I wanna say 8GB of memory but i
by alabastervlog 2y ago
I tried to use an ancient Asus Chromebox as my main desktop for a while, maybe three years ago. Old dual-core celeron processor, I wanna say 8GB of memory but it might have been 4.
The only usable browsers were very-light WebKit ones, and even then, more than three tabs was no good, and heavier “webapps” weren’t an option, unusably slow. Firefox and Chrome were unusable, period, and “lightweight” options based on their engines are not very lightweight at all. It had to be WebKit.
Wild that with the early ‘00s Web I could browse far more capably on machines 1/10 that powerful.
[edit] I mean, it was a chromebox by brand but I was running Void Linux on it.
- arcanemachiner 2y agoI recently had the pleasure of using an old low-end laptop running Windows Vista from around 2005 which had a lower-end CPU and like 1 or 2 GB of RAM. It was surprisingly snappy and usable.