Re:Why I Use Old Hardware
by lelanthran on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:42AM
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Editing 4k videos/raw photos is an outlier as far as PC tasks go.
Your argument "that's a myth" is based on a task that's so small in terms of percentage it's literally a rounding error.
I'm typing this on a 2010 computer (i7 870 @ 2.93GHz, 16GB RAM), which I also use to write software (C, Lazarus, JS, Go using VSCode, Vim, Emacs), browse web, use web apps (miro, tinkercad, asciiflow, a few others).
Inkscape works acceptably, light image retouching using Gimp works acceptably.
I used to play Starcraft II, Far Cry 3/4/5 on this machine until an upgrade nuked my Wine installation and I didn't bother to fix that.
My steam library is filled with games that work on this machine.
Out of the thousands of tasks that people use their computer for, two of them can't be done acceptably on this machine.
Your argument "that's a myth" is based on a task that's so small in terms of percentage it's literally a rounding error.
I'm typing this on a 2010 computer (i7 870 @ 2.93GHz, 16GB RAM), which I also use to write software (C, Lazarus, JS, Go using VSCode, Vim, Emacs), browse web, use web apps (miro, tinkercad, asciiflow, a few others).
Inkscape works acceptably, light image retouching using Gimp works acceptably.
I used to play Starcraft II, Far Cry 3/4/5 on this machine until an upgrade nuked my Wine installation and I didn't bother to fix that.
My steam library is filled with games that work on this machine.
Out of the thousands of tasks that people use their computer for, two of them can't be done acceptably on this machine.