Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by Liron on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:12PM (#26959419)

> And I fail to see why anyone would use this, you need high speed internet capable of streaming 4k for one and if you have access to that, then chances are you also have access to a sufficiently powerful computer capable of running chrome locally.

Plenty of people who can’t afford a fast computer currently have access to a fast internet connection. The ability to substitute internet bandwidth for CPU and RAM will be very valuable for them.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by firebaze on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:31PM (#26961125)

I'm not sure people who cannot afford a fast computer will be able to spend their money on a service like this.

I'm quite probably overlooking something and I'd be curious to learn what.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by mfer on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:22PM (#26959537)

Most people don't need a fast computer. For many a 5 year old average computer is good enough in terms of hardware.

What makes this hardware not great is the many developers who have fast machines who are ok using a lot of it with the software they develop. This makes the experience on older systems slow. It's unplanned obsolescence.

For chrome stuff and using the web I shouldn't need a killer system. No one should.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by yunohn on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:12PM (#26960134)

> Plenty of people who can’t afford a fast computer

I’m pretty sure this set of people can’t afford 50$ for Mighty either.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by intergalplan on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:21PM (#26961015)

On the one hand: yes, $50 * 12 months would go a long way toward a machine upgrade, so it doesn't make a ton of sense purely on your-machine's-too-weak grounds.

On the other hand, I don't really run Chrome or Firefox on anything that operates on battery, because I don't like seeing the little battery icon deplete twice as fast, and it barely even matters how powerful the machine is (M1 helps, but there's still a noticeable difference). Maybe there are people who really, really want to run Chrome all the time, but also work mostly on portables and like them actually lasting as long on battery as they're supposed to. Maybe that's worth $50/m to them.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by ufo on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:11PM (#26961623)

I'm curious how much battery the video streaming would use here. Wifi tends to use a fair bit of power.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by intergalplan on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:13PM (#26962479)

Good point. Decoding's usually pretty efficient, but you're right that use of wifi plus everything else related to this program might erase much of the power-savings.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by halikular on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:29PM (#26960361)

You can get a more than enough powerful computer to run a web browser and more for $400 if you buy used, and you'll get to keep it forever. A subscription of Mighty would only last you a year for the same $400 price tag.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by cblconfederate on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:24PM (#26959563)

Harder to find a fast connection than a PC. PCs are still cheap

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