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hn_acc1yesterday at 8:29 PM1 replyview on HN

HDD or SSD? SSD can effectively make up for SOME amount of less RAM due to faster swapping, in my experience.


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bitwizeyesterday at 8:36 PM

2015 laptop, spinning rust. Nevertheless, it was at least somewhat acceptable at purchase, but crapware installed with successive system updates brought it to a standstill. An SSD might've helped, but not by much. I wiped it and put Kubuntu on it to give to my wife, for whom it ran acceptably. She gave it back when she got a shiny new MacBook Air.

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