Re:Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
by seniorThrowaway on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:28PM
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I have an older laptop with an hdd. It always was under powered but still usable for things like streaming to a tv every once in a while. The latest Win10 updates have it taking minutes to run a search or context switch. Feels like we are getting into phone territory of forced HW upgrades for everything now.
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Re:Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
by boba7 on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:32PM
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I'm upgrading computers in my University with 8GB of ram and ssd and poof, 2011 computers run W10 just fine once again.
Re:Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
by smhenderson on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:25PM
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This was my experience as well updating computers at a company I recently joined. Changing to an SSD had the most impact, although a lot of these machines already had 8GB of RAM. There are still a handful around that now have an SSD but still 4GB of RAM they came with; these are also better now, usable anyway.
Re:Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
by at-fates-hands on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:30PM
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My company did the same thing a while back. I remember two years ago having to get in the office at least 20 minutes before my z book laptop would fully boot.
They upgraded all the developer grade laptops with 32GB of RAM and SSD's. Still take a good 5-8 mins to boot, but compared to where they were? Light years better!
Re:Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
by asdff on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:55PM
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I did this to all my family members macbook pros a few years ago, back when apple let you do that sort of thing to your hardware. These machines are 10 years old and still running modern stuff just fine.