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1. Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 (juliank@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 14:52:59 UTC Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

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   @ifixcoinops it's not really true, though.

   I bought new ThinkPads in 2012 (well 2013), 2018, and 2023 (could have been 2021). 2012 to 2018 (i5-320M to 8250U) doubled performance, and 2018 to 2023 (to Ryzen 7650U Pro) doubled performance again.

   That is, 2012 to 2021 quadrupled performance, and it about halved the power consumption, at light use anyway. Batteries can now last more than 3 hours, it's amazing.

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   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 14:53:00 UTC Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     @juliank it's true for me, my new machine does everything I need it to as fast as my old one did. I guess if there's gaming involved or running windows or whatever then you'd notice a difference

   • Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 (juliank@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 14:53:00 UTC Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     @ifixcoinops It's compiling code where you really notice it. 100% CPU bound, fully parallelizable.

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   • Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 14:53:02 UTC Mans R

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     @juliank @ifixcoinops My previous workstation was a 6-core Intel something from 2010, and it was fine for web browsing and such. However, replacing it with a 16-core AMD EPYC with 128 GB RAM and NVMe storage made a huge difference for OpenEmbedded builds. Faster storage also makes a noticeable difference when working with large git repos like the Linux kernel. The new system also uses half as much power when idle (more under full load).

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