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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      Odd, my Core2Duo really struggles on Video playback, browsing, running large applications etc… and that’s less than 20 years old.

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    That’s because ripping into your disk for every click and key press, oh and the constant recording, is very taxing :)

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      I was told these machines have that feature “disabled” but I trust that as much as a politicians word.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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        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.