On this table there is a Laptop from dunno, 2011 or so with 4GB RAM and a fucking hard disk and it is faster than all boomer PCs I know.
Copy that?
2011+Linux+somewhat esoteric cache and scheduler tweaks = 2025 16GB-office-PC + standard setup.

The other one is from 2009 and just works, TM. If everybody does this, PC-Industry is dead.

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