Re:Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 to Support Windows 10
by einr on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:54AM
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whenever various background processes decide they need lots of CPU (e.g. windows update)
I'm not convinced this is Intel's fault.
It's anecdotal, but I do web browsing every day on a cheap, consumer-level HP laptop from 2007 with a Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a big dumb mechanical HDD. I hardly ever hear the fan. Using Debian with XFCE and few unnecessary background processes.
I'm not convinced this is Intel's fault.
It's anecdotal, but I do web browsing every day on a cheap, consumer-level HP laptop from 2007 with a Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a big dumb mechanical HDD. I hardly ever hear the fan. Using Debian with XFCE and few unnecessary background processes.