Wasn’t a lot of benefits from the i7 back then, the 750 was still quad core, decent specs.
Serious question, why haven’t you upgraded to an i7 yet? They’d have to be super cheap at this point, right?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The I7 has hyper threading which is a ~50% perf boost over the i5
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I mean, it’s not my work PC anymore, but this one has been my main entertainment system for years now. I really don’t need to upgrade and create e-waste to gain a little bit of performance. I haven’t even installed Linux on it yet, still on win 10, but that will make it even faster. It’s my firm belief that like 80% of the people would be fine with 15+ years old computers.
The_v@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My newest computer is 5 years old. I see no reason to upgrade anything.
I use my 11 year old laptop with Linux mint on it as well. I maxed out the RAM on it and swapped in a Sata SSD, it boots in under 40 seconds and does everything I need it to do. It’s one of those cheap underpowered Celeron processors as well.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Id still be using my clamshell iBook if it worked and supported a modern-ish browser.
My eeePC only got sidelined because 4gb of ram is now too little for kubuntu releases. (I was going to install Debian, but after 30 min on it’s SLOW SSD it failed and I haven’t tried again) And I had issues with the screen resolution being too low for the smallest settings window before.