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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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