From my experience slow laptops are slow not because of the cpu (I mean, we’re not running a chess engine here…) but slow disks and slow/not enough RAM, which compounds the disk issue as soon as you start actively swapping… which in some of these is about as soon as the OS boots.

Like, I just loaded up the Best Buy app and 3 of their top 10 selling laptops only have 4GB of RAM. I haven’t used a computer with that little RAM in over a decade.

People want cheap things, and the manufacturers comply. But if you set a minimum baseline (i5/Ryzen 5 + SSD + 8 GB RAM), you’re unlikely to get a dud.

I'd say it's worth to go to 16gb but otherwise I agree.

For the price of Mighty you could... buy RAM.

Isn’t The ram on most laptops these days soldered in because it’s cheaper to build it that way then to actually build slots.

Even if you bought a cheap laptop with soldered-in RAM, you can always invest the $35/month towards buying a new laptop with reasonable specs.

One concept of mighty was that your server could be upgraded faster than you could upgrade your personal computer.

A lot of them are slow because of corporate crapware that they stuff onto them.

A previous employer had an anti-malware agent that made 2018-era NVME MBPros as slow as harddisks.