In terms of usage, it is mostly the same. Of course, the number of cores went up from 2 to 8. A quick glance shows 6x-12x CPU performance improvement. 8x the RAM of the original laptop, 8x GPU RAM, and I’m pretty sure that by benchmarks they are probably 8x faster both in CPU and GPU workloads. Now, on paper the newer laptop is quite stellar. Cost: Let’s just say between $1000 and $1500.I have had a couple of other personal laptops in the interim, and several work laptops. But other than that, pretty much all the same things.

Maybe not as much music or video streaming. However, if I remember correctly, I did the same things on this old laptop that I do today on my new laptop. Now, I think this processor will not even match up to Atoms from today, and considering Apple’s M1 is on 5nm, one can imagine the performance gap.

Display – Not sure if it was 1080p or 720p.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz).

ATI Radeon graphics HD3670 ? (512MB RAM).

I’d have to boot into the old laptop and check it’s specs, but here’s what I remember. It was a Dell Studio XPS 16″ and it is less than a foot away from me right now 🙂 I haven’t booted it in ages, and the last time I booted it, it swapped memory just listening to music over youtube on one chrome tab and trying to browse on the other. I got my first personal laptop back in 2009. So I recently bought myself a new personal laptop.

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