Comment by KozmoNau7
8 years ago
That's not my point.
My point is that they're not noticeably faster for the things most people use their computers for. They still run browsers, Spotify, email, word processors and all of that just fine and last "long enough" on a charge.
The improvements have been incredibly marginal for most people.
The difference is noticable, the modern laptops are subjectively perceived by users as faster, even if they have slower CPUs.
Also, they do not have a problem with Electron apps. for most people, they are just apps like anythig else, and do not perceive any performance problems with them.
That is mostly due to SSDs, which can also be fitted perfectly well to older laptops, SATA has been standard for a long time now.
And where did Electron apps come into the discussion?
The difference between NVME SSD and SATA SSD is like between classic HDD and SATA SSD. It has to; NVME can push 4GBps, SATA3 only 600MBps.
Even the Apple 2015 M.2 drives, which are "only" AHCI, but with much deeper queue (i.e. nonstandard), can do 1.something GBps and the difference compared to standard SATA SSD is noticable by normal users.
Electron apps are something normal people use and some of them compain about the speed/lag/memory usage. Usually those with older computers, who think nothing changed in the last years ;).
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