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A comment on Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs. Parent comment

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by ticviking on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:20PM (#34899005)
When was the last time you used them on a $200 laptop like your cousin picked up cheap to take to college?

Or tried to help students use an electron IDE on a computer with 8Gb and a 2 ghz 10 year old processor that their dad saved to buy secondhand to help his kid not need to work overtime at the factory to keep food on the table?

Electon is only fast on developer and gamer tier hardware.

Try running this stuff on the hardware steam says is the average gamer and see how fast it actually feels.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by ihateolives on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:52PM (#34906543)
Having used second hand laptops almost exclusively for 20 years and having helped friends to do the same I'm pretty confident saying that 90% of the time the slowness is botched Windows installation and the lack of computer hygiene. Not always, but in overwhelmingly majority of cases.
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