On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 03:27:33PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Michal Suchánek composed on 2022-08-10 19:32 (UTC+0200):
while the Core(2) CPUs are usable today they are nearing their practical usability EOL.
I don't see it as CPU per se. I have multiple Core2Duos, an i5-11400 and various in between. Newer CPU generations mainly mean more threads per price point. CPU
Each new iteration tends to be about 10-20% fater for some definition of faster which accumulates over time. If raw CPU power was the problem we would not get new Celerons and APUs, though.
speed range hasn't been evolving. The big differences I see are all I/O-related, DDR2 vs. DDR3 vs. DDR4, NVME vs SATA, maximum supported RAM 4G vs. various multiples of 4G, and availability of USB3 and its ostensible competitors. Basic
Sure, and at some point some of the IO capabilities become essential rendering the systems that don't have them impractical to use. Different video interfaces and screen size limits exist, too.
internet, writing and spreadsheet functionality still exists in 2G max RAM PCs,
Which is very close to the 4G limit mentioned above and potential bottleneck in the near future.
just not with flagship desktop environments or lots of browser tabs, PCs for people with minimal budgets, depending on what they can get for little to no cost.
Some Core2 systems go up to 16G but getting the memory is very expenive so you generally have to live with whatever is installed there or get a new system. Note that on many old systems you would require memory size that was atypical at the time the systems were mainstream to get the maximum possible memory so it's unlikely to be available second hand. Thanks Michal