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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by fragmede on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:34AM (#22170947)
I've a 2012 MacBook Pro as well, and Chrome is unusably slow on it (OS X). Safari runs okay. Mine has 4 GiB of ram, and a spinning disk. The combination means it's hitting swap constantly, and hitting swap thrashes the disk on top of it. When I get the money to upgrade the ram to 16 GiB and upgrade to an SSD I'm hopeful it's be more usable, but for now it runs a terminal well enough.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by exadeci on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:12PM (#22187057)
I have a mid 2012, I upgraded the ram to 10GB 4 years ago and replaced both the hdd and the cd reader by 2 ssd.

This things flies for most tasks, I only see it slow down when I try compiling Android apps.

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