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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Y'all laugh but I'm getting into Linux and dusted off an old i7 laptop with 16gb of RAM. Slapped a $40 512GB ssd and linux mint on it to get into [email protected]!

...then promptly forgot about the laptop

[+] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It could be as old as 15 years... If someone bought a species out i7 laptop in 2009 they may have upgraded it to 16gb at some point. Seems realistic enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Please stop. I'm only in my 30s but you're making me feel like I'm 80. To me, old is a 386 with 4MB of RAM, a 40MB hard drive, Windows 3.1, and a turbo button. Audio was limited to a single channel square wave courtesy of the PC speaker, cause sound cards were expensive.

Or if you want to really talk old in the personal computing realm, then we'll have to start bring up companies like Commodore, Atari, and Radio Shack. But their computers were before my time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well personal computing just moved faster back then. Today, a decent computer from 10 years ago (2014) is perfectly usable for most people (with an SSD especially). But in 2010 if you had a top of the line computer that was from 2000 it was basically garbage. If you had a computer from 1990 in the year 2000 it was practically ancient history.

The PC market just has plateaud for everyday use. We just see incremental performance improvements for enthusiasts/professionals and little more than power draw improvements for everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Intel has been on the i3, i5, i7 naming scheme for a while though. I think the oldest ones are probably ~15 years old at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

13 years old i7-2600 still going strong here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

When I got a deal on my i7-3770k, I actually had enough to get more ram. So that desktop has 16 gigs.

Still going strong since 2013. It's an emulation rig now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I have an Asus ROG laptop I bought in 2013 with a 3rd gen i7, whatever the gtx 660 mobile chip was and 16gb of ram, it's definitely old by any definition, but swapping for an ssd makes it super useable, it's the machine that lives in my garage as a shop/lab computer. To be fair, its job is web browsing, CAD touchups, slicing and PDF viewing most of the time, but I bet I could be more demanding on it.

I had been running mint w/ cinnamon on it before as I was concerned about resource usage, was a klipper and octoprint host to printer for a year and a bit. Wiped it and went for Debian with xfce becauae again, was originally concerned about resource usage but ended up swapping to KDE and I don't notice any difference so it's staying that way.

I really hate waste so I appreciate just how useable older hardware can be, Yeah there's probably an era that's less true but I'll go out on a limb (based on feeling only) and suggest that anything in the last 15 years this'll be true for, but that's going to depend on what you're trying to do with it, you won't have all the capability of more modern hardware but frankly a lot of use cases probably don't need that anyhow (web browsing, word processing, programming, music playback for sure, probably some video playback, pretty much haven't hit a wall yet with my laptop)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

8 gb ddr3 dimms do exist. It could be a decade old laptop that can do that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I have a ten-year old MacBook Pro with an i7 and 16gb of ram. Just because this thing was a total beast when it was new does not mean it isn't old now. works great with Ubuntu though. It's still not a good idea to run it as a server though. My raspberry pi consumes a lot less energy for some basic web hosting tasks. I only use the old MBP to run memory intense docker containers like openrouteservice and I guess just using some hosting service for that would not be much more expensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4gb of ram and 32gb of storage:

pihole
nginx proxy manager
vaultwarden
ntfy server
mollysocket
fmd server
wireguard server
cloudflare ddns
my website
watchtower

All that and load average is 0.05%, ram usage is at 450MB and disk usage at 6.4GB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Heres the template if anyone wants it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Know what? Fine. I'll try Linux again. Tired of watching my craptop sit at 100% disk usage for 10 minutes before it starts responding. Mint is good to start with, ye?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If your craptop is using an HDD instead of an SSD, replacing it with an SSD would be a cheap upgrade you could do that would make a massive improvement.