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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by ori_b on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @04:52PM (#14092326)
> It's been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems.

This annoys me a lot, for one of two reasons. Either:

1. Some developers have no idea what performance means -- it's crazy that I have time to notice a spinner when a glorified IRC client starts up or switches tabs, let alone have time to watch it for tens of seconds.

or:

2. If these developers are claiming they have no performance problems, clearly the laptops that can handle modern applications are being hoarded, and I have no way to obtain one of these magical machines. All I can get are recent i7 processors.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by cgriswald on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:08AM (#14094677)
3. Battery life is excluded from "performance".
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by btschaegg on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:25PM (#14093091)
On point 1: Also there's still the effect where your app does the same thing a native app would do in an equally reasonable time but uses twice as much power to do it.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by brokenmachine on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:07AM (#14095189)
I agree with both of these.

With the power that even average machines have now, it beggars belief that we ever see a spinner at all for normal desktop-related stuff.

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