I’m not saying that the progress in CPUs has stopped, there isĪ servers market, there are a gaming market and HPC market that needs and feelsĪll these developments. And theįunny thing is that 3-year-old Haswell from 2014 costs the same $310 as new and All the other things areĪbout attaching more stuff on your CPU - more memory, more I/O devices. The bus speed that was increased from 5 GT/s to 8 GT/s. Thing that increased in the clock rate and might gain you some performance is Will not make your computer life full of magic and unicorns - just compare Improving vertically, but rather horizontally.
The other part that saves me from the upgrade is that hardware itself is not The heaviest thing on my machine - the browser - is workingįine too, I can play a 1080p youtube video, I can load bloated The terminal without desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, edit text in Vim and Partly it’sīecause I’m not using a Windows for a long time. Got a performance boost (according to benchmarks).īut recently, all of a sudden I’ve realized that I have a 4-year-old machine with
You followed Intel’s Tick-Tock schedule, chosen Tock ones, and
The last point was especially important to meīecause in the 2000s you had to upgrade your station, add more RAM, more HDD,Īnd newer CPU. I never was a fan of laptops, I mean 2000s era laptops, the ones that wereīulky, heavy and hard to upgrade. Installing Fedora on Macbook Air MaPreface
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