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On 26/10/2014 23:23, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my |
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>> > choice of init system. |
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> You should try getting it an SSD. It brings back old laptops from the |
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> grave: most desktop software has been I/O bound for some time, and |
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> with a fast SSD, even an old laptop can become usuable again. |
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+1 |
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It used to be that more RAM was the easiest way to get performance gains |
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out of not-so-bleeding-edge anymore hardware. |
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Nowadays, most machine tend to have enough RAM (unless the owner made a |
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silly decision at purchase time), but an SSD is an instant, gigantic |
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performance upgrade. |
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This here laptop for instance - once the bios screen gets out of the way |
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it's 8 seconds to a dm login screen, all due to the SSD. Firefox takes |
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much longer than that to re-open all the tabs from last session, not |
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much I can do about that sadly. This damn thing is so fast I tend forget |
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just how fast it is, and remember when dealing with issues on my user's |
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Ubuntu workstations :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |