Comment by AlecSchueler
7 days ago
My daily driver is an x200 upgraded to 4gb of RAM. It runs as well as it ever did except the web has become slower and slower in that everything became an app. Things like GMail and YouTube are slow but honestly still fine, and in the worst case scenario I can jump onto my phone.
My main use these days is recording and mixing music through an interface from 2014. With Reaper the experience is even better than when I picked the laptop up back around 2010.
Its funny you say thay it's the browser slowing you down on your PC. I have an MBP from 2011 and the browser (Safari) is the only thing it can still run extremely well.
The latest browser itself runs fine as well as most old school websites like Hacker News, it's only the "web apps" that run slowly.
Can't throw more than 4gb in there ? Even 8 makes a big difference.
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