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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by user5994461 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:56PM (#14091250)
It's mostly CPU performances I experience. Rendering any video, gif, website takes sizeable CPU power (for a cheap CPU in power saving mode).

Never had issue with RAM. I can remember a few friends who bought netbooks with 2GB memory some years ago, they quickly realized that they simply cannot run their development environment in that. (I'm talking swap death where a click that should take 1 second to act takes 1 entire minute).

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by nickpsecurity on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:05PM (#14094404)
Right now I'm using a backup laptop with Intel Celeron. It runs most apps fine. Web sites like Hacker News come up easily and snappily. The CPU fan kicks in when I watch a high-quality movie. It also kicks in on small, web apps. Kicks in big time on Youtube and Facebook. Everything on those is sluggish compared to my native apps. Even if non-technical, I'd know stuff was about to slow down when I go into my browser.

Just bad tools leading to waste users notice. Best to avoid them if possible. Not always possible...

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