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TL;DR: he compares a computer without an SSD to a computer with an SSD, the computer without an SSD is slower. Why do stories like this get upvotes?
by tinco 14y ago
TL;DR: he compares a computer without an SSD to a computer with an SSD, the computer without an SSD is slower.
Why do stories like this get upvotes?
- autotravis 14y agoReal TL;DR: I compared a computer without an SSD, but with an Intel Core i7 clocked at 2 GHZ (quad-core, 8 threads) with a unix-like OS often cited as comparable to Linux to a 7 year old Core2Duo (2 threads) machine with 7 year old RAM and an SSD running Ubuntu (an OS not known as efficient). The older machine with the slower CPU was faster. It wasn't about the comparison, actually. It was about my surprise at how slow such an impressively spec'd machine can be -- and my regret that I didn't get the XPS 13.
- tinco 14y agoEven a 10 year old machine with an SSD would be faster than a machine with a 5400rpm disk. Other things just don't matter when comparing operating system performance.