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rescbr on June 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: iPhone 6S getting iOS 14 is like the Galaxy S6 get...

Software are more bloated than 3 or 5 years ago. Performance with a HDD will suffer as everything has to be loaded to RAM before the CPU runs the code. Put a SSD in this machine and for most tasks your experience will be the same as with a brand new PC.

lostmsu on June 24, 2020 [–]

That would contradict a claim about 2005 machine being snappy with Linux. 2005 machine probably does not have an SSD.

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