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I agree. There were only 2 game changing upgrades for me. One was hard disk to SSD. The other was x86 laptop to M1.
by aurareturn 8mo ago
I agree. There were only 2 game changing upgrades for me. One was hard disk to SSD. The other was x86 laptop to M1.
- bigDinosaur 8mo agoYou really didn't feel Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo was a 'game changer'?
- bcrl 8mo agoSoftware was already far down the bloat path by the time the Core 2 Duo came out, so the upgrade didn't make all that much of a difference in feel given how much latency was caused by software performing random reads off a disk. That's why SSDs made such a huge difference. Back in the MS-DOS days, the amount of data needed to be read off a disk while the OS booted was negligible, so a second or two on a fast 486 felt amazing compared to the incredibly slow grind of watching code execute on an 8086 or slow 80286. Software was still in the space of having to run tolerably on an 8086, so the added resources of a newer faster machine actually did improve the feel of the system.
- aurareturn 8mo agoAthlon 3200+ to core 2 duo. Not it didn’t feel as much as M1. M1 allowed me to do things I thought was impossible which was fast, fanless, cool, and extremely long battery life.
- qsi 8mo agoMoving from floppy disk to hard disk was pretty big for me. :)