Title kind of says it all but it’s still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.
Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.
Before that, lots of effort was put into efficiency, specifically in the OS.
Now days, hardware is so fast, and storage has become so large, the only way to force people to buy new hardware is to create total bloatware and planed obsolescence.
I’m forced to use windows for work, and have been on 11 for a while now. Many basic tasks are indeed much slower.
I finally have my own home PC for the first time in decades, and this is one of the many reasons I plan on switching it to linux.
I want all that horse power going into graphics and gaming, not running a shit OS.
Odd, my Core2Duo really struggles on Video playback, browsing, running large applications etc… and that’s less than 20 years old.