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I have a simple andĮfficient setup that serves me extremely well, looks gorgeous for me and don’t I don’t careĪbout you guys whining “…but macOS is so much better and friendly and nice andīlah-blah…”. The problem was that it was a Macbook Air.Īnd I’m a Linux guy, so I had to install Fedora on this stuff. Light and hold battery for at least 8 hours. So there is a rare need to upgrade your machine now and recent laptops are nice, I’m saying that for consumer machines like desktops I’m not saying that the progress in CPUs has stopped, there isĪ servers market, there are a gaming market and HPC market that needs and feelsĪll these developments. And theįunny thing is that 3-year-old Haswell from 2014 costs the same $310 as new and All the other things areĪbout attaching more stuff on your CPU - more memory, more I/O devices. The bus speed that was increased from 5 GT/s to 8 GT/s. Thing that increased in the clock rate and might gain you some performance is Will not make your computer life full of magic and unicorns - just compare Improving vertically, but rather horizontally. The other part that saves me from the upgrade is that hardware itself is not The heaviest thing on my machine - the browser - is workingįine too, I can play a 1080p youtube video, I can load bloated The terminal without desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, edit text in Vim and Partly it’sīecause I’m not using a Windows for a long time. Got a performance boost (according to benchmarks).īut recently, all of a sudden I’ve realized that I have a 4-year-old machine with You followed Intel’s Tick-Tock schedule, chosen Tock ones, and The last point was especially important to meīecause in the 2000s you had to upgrade your station, add more RAM, more HDD,Īnd newer CPU. I never was a fan of laptops, I mean 2000s era laptops, the ones that wereīulky, heavy and hard to upgrade. Installing Fedora on Macbook Air MaPreface

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