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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by colanderman on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:21PM (#6606930)
people do not need $2000 Facebook and email machines

I dunno, Facebook and GMail seem to get slower each month. They're unusably slow, even in Chrome on Windows, on both my and my wife's circa-2008 machines.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by bluedino on Thursday October 24, 2013 @03:03PM (#6607194)
HTML5 combined with crazy CSS can make a C2D crawl these days. It's not just Flash anymore that's sucking CPU power down.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by meerita on Thursday October 24, 2013 @03:33PM (#6607366)
I still use Facebook on old iPad 2. And it goes faster as the same day I've bought it.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by telephonetemp on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:39PM (#6608185)
That's generally the solution to the problem of accessing the Web on old PCs: request the mobile version of the website. Heck, with enough trickery you can even get Opera Mini to run.
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