For "office type" use these PCs will be good till they die. Professional use is a different story. What took me 40 min on 8th generation Intel, takes 15 min on 12th generation and that's an argument to really consider an upgrade. However I did a step further and upgraded to AMD this time, 7950x, which does the same job in 1.x min
yup. i thought machine specs would be way more than needed and then large language models became a thing...
Someone asked me to check the spec of a new laptop, recently released, that they were thinking of buying the other day.
My PC still beat it in performance ratings!
The major change I made a few years old when it got so slow as to be unusable was to add a SDD for boot and applications. That made an astounding difference.
Back in the day I used to go to computer fairs in London (Tottenham Court Road) whenever I wanted to put together a PC. It was so much fun to research the different components (graphics, CPUs, RAM, PSUs etc..) and then haggle and banter with the traders for a few quid off.
A big thing in the early 2000s was the quiet PC movement with its underclocking and variable fan speeds to keep the heat (ergo noise) down. That was a much bigger obsession than trying to squeeze the maximum performance from my PC.
Anyway at some point I just became boring and bought my PCs from Dell, Lenovo etc..
Such an ageist and presumptuous remark! Can’t for the life of me imagine why the mods tolerate such outrage – ooopsie, just noticed the offender is a mod
Anyway, I’m sure the tasteless joke police will make their rounds sooner or later and remove this stain on a bright young spark’s moderation CV – or should I report it to make sure of futility
a few years back, intel focussed on power consumption over performance on laptops. i remember buying a 2nd hand lenovo that was several years older than then then latest laptop that i had and the performance was the same as the lenovo had the last in the line of performance processors. laptop CPUs are gimped in many ways.
i thought my ssd was plenty fast until i had to regularly shuffle gigabytes of data around and then upgrading to pcie4 seemed sensible (whereas previously, i thought it was overkill).
any computer without ssd is completely unusable for me.
same here. i was also obsessed with silence. in the end i used a fanless VIA EPIA board and a dc-dc power supply with the fan removed (probably not the safest thing to do!).