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		bamfly on June 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly.... The min specs would be the same, laptop or desktop. A laptop with those kind of specs back then probably just had terrible battery life and was really big & heavy, didn't throttle down or anything. Not like today when you'd expect the "same part" or "same clock speed" to not really be the same, between a mobile and desktop chip.

rsynnott on June 23, 2023 [–]

IIRC laptops of that sort of era often used slower RAM, and laptop hard drives were generally _much_ slower than desktop ones.

(Also there was a period when a lot of laptops used non-Intel x86 implementations, which typically weren't very good. Cyrix, Via et al.)

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