Linux is often praised for breathing new life into older and less powerful laptops, and a new Infographic illustrates just that.
illustrating the speeds of various productivity and business tasks using a"cheap and cheerful" HP laptop.Mawson compared Windows 10 version 1903 and Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon on the HP 245 G6 laptop which contains a meager. The machine has a respectable amount of RAM at 8GB, but it's definitely bottlenecked by the slow 5400 RPM hard drive and budget dual-core 2GHz processor.
Using fresh installations, Mawson clocked the speeds for various productivity tasks and daily routines, such as Firefox browsing, firing up Slack, system boot time and image editing. Here's what each partition looks like on the software side:
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