Go build two identical PCs to a reasonable modern spec. “Optimise” one of them. If “most people” can tell the difference in a blind test based purely on performance I’ll give you my bike.
granted nearly nobody! no room for more bikes anyway!
I resurrected quite a few "old" pcs over the lockdown for students to use. stripping the fat of the OS and using lightweight browsers and other apps on an SSD they performed fine, on a standard instal with all the latest apps they were like treacle.. on a cold day. Fast modern PC will run OK, but gains are there to be had if the user wants them.
Cloud services use mainly conventional HDDs, some use magic crystals but they charge a premium.
HDD can often be recovered, and usually gives some warning Dead SSD is dead. and they do it in an instant.
Apples and oranges.
Conventional HDDs are cheap and easy to replace. No cloud provider in their right mind would ever be performing data recovery on a failed disk, they'd just pull it out of the RAID stack and replace it. One would hope that there's sufficient High Availability redundancy to lose an entire datacentre and keep on ticking.
At worst they'd be recovering from backups rather than attempting recovery.
I resurrected quite a few “old” pcs over the lockdown for students to use. stripping the fat of the OS and using lightweight browsers and other apps on an SSD they performed fine, on a standard instal with all the latest apps they were like treacle.. on a cold day.
If it got to that point I'd be sticking Linux on them instead.
yeah but Spot*fy, much as I hate it....kidz...
yeah but Spot*fy, much as I hate it….kidz…
You can run it on Linux
I have 11 and 12 year old laptops, they work fine with standard Windows installs and SSDs.
Just a heads up here Battery is warrantied for 12 months all the dells we have had we wrongly assumed would be covered for 3 years as per their on site service included in the purchase price of the laptop , it transpires this is not the case and a battery is a wear item.
That being the only exception we have had no problems with Dell.
You can get a detailed battery report in HTML format by typing the below in an elevated command prompt (type cmd in the search bar and then when the command window shows up select "Run as Administrator). Then type the below.
powercfg /batteryreport /output "C:\battery_report.html"
Once it's created you can browse to it and double click to open.
I have 11 and 12 year old laptops, they work fine with standard Windows installs and SSDs.
Win8 and 10 were basically Win7 with a lot of tidying up and interface changes. Win7 was basically Win Vista Service Pack 3. Any machine that could run Win7 or Win8 should run Win10 just fine. If you have 8 GB RAM and an SSD, running general apps and web stuff will be fine.
