Subj : Re: A new computer setup
To   : Dennisk
From : Tracker1
Date : Thu Aug 20 2020 06:37:11

On 8/19/2020 8:27 PM, Dennisk wrote:
> 
> Mine is 10 years old.  No good for new games now, but for everything else, its
> find.
> 
> If you aren't playing games, I think you can easily go 10 years without having
> to upgrade, especially if you are using Linux.

I think it may also come down to what you are doing, how patient you are 
and if you've had exposure to a faster computer.  I recently upgraded. 
My prior desktop was around 5yo at the time... I was issued a work 
laptop about 2 years ago that did a few work things faster than my 
desktop.  This drove a desire to get those gains on my home system. 
Since upgrading my home system everything feels painfully slow.

If it's all you know, and *it* hasn't changed, then it's easy to keep 
using it.  If you've experienced better/faster it isn't always that 
easy.  Of course another change vs. a few years ago is that what I work 
on often requires several servers/services in the background on my 
computer, usually spun up in Docker containers.  These all take 
resources and on even a few year old hardware this becomes a significant 
slowdown.  DB (pg or ms-sql), Redis, Rabbit, and a handful of things 
you're working on and it's noticeable.

-- 
Michael J. Ryan
tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS

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