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Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by mrblampo on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:49AM (#27590069)
> Even editing simple text documents has become painfully slow on my 2013 Macbook Pro.

I just installed Linux Mint on my 2013 MacBook Air, and now it's fast enough that you wouldn't know it's an old computer. Really amazing, it seems like Mac OS in particular is just super resource heavy. I realize Linux pretty much defeats the purpose of owning a Mac, but I'm just glad not to have to throw out an old computer that has seen me through my entire career shift into programming so far.

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Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by pdimitar on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:33AM (#27590380)
Not going to try to convince you of anything, just going to share that I preferred to get rid of my MBP 2015 and buy a fairly decent AMD Ryzen laptop for even less money than I made with the MBP sale.

Linux absolutely flies on a Ryzen 4700U with an NVMe SSD. ^_^

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