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.
Windows being slower as it is, your work machine likely also has a ton of endpoint security and monitoring tools installed that are constantly running.
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.
Your work machine is running 18 copies of McAfee or whatever. Of course it’s going to be slower.
That’s because ripping into your disk for every click and key press, oh and the constant recording, is very taxing :)
I was told these machines have that feature “disabled” but I trust that as much as a politicians word.
Yes, Windows sucks. What’s your question?
Yeah its pretty bad. I have two dell latitudes, one from about 2015 and one newish one. Opensuse on the old one, Win11 on the new one, guess which one isn’t all laggy
Sounds like your organizations Windows 11 image is bloated and or your adnin didn’t set much in the way of group policy. It could also be one of those shit corporate security products eating up resources.
Talk to your admins to see if you can speed it up. One of my work machines has a 8th gen Intel i5 with 48gb of ram and it is quick and snappy. I got permission to strip out Onedrive and some other junk which helped a lot. I also disabled all of the startup apps.
Sounds like
your organizationsWindows 11imageis bloatedFTFY
It doesn’t have to be
Windows and Microsoft suck sometimes. That doesn’t mean you throw your arms in the air
Windows and Microsoft suck
sometimesall the timeFTFY
And the i7 is… What… I7 in laptops don’t mean a lot as many are low speed CPUs and some are high where as on desktop they are almost always high-end.
Regardless it’s an i7 that is 15 years newer than my amd fx, and the fx wasn’t a good cpu when it was new . I don’t recall the i7 model off the top of my head
The old 1-2 punch. Cyberark left, Trellix right cross.
I always preferred the AMD branch pipeline over Intel. Sadly I haven’t used an AM since that FX era, but I used that until about 5 years ago and still preferred it to that day’s Intels.
Same, better upgradeability.
The main reason I upgraded was I wanted more RAM and maxed out the DDR3 stick sizes.
I got a 6th Gen i7, which has faster hard-core processing, but the Windows and MS Office UI was really responsive on those AMDs.
I upgraded from a Ryzen 7 1800X (zen 1) to a Ryzen 9 5950X (zen 3).
Can’t do that with Intel, new CPU gen means you shell out for a new mobo.Sweet move!
