In this video I test a 15 year old dell inspiron laptop, surprisingly it’s able to run some modern software decently. Over the past 30 years technology has changed quite substantially, but I have to wonder at what point does Moore's law become no longer relevant? There will alway be a need for the best, most powerful computers, but for the home and business computer there must be a limit to where the person using the computer is the biggest bottle neck to performance and upgrading your computer is not needed. I think there are still several years where it will be desirable to upgrade to faster and more powerful computers. As for this Dell Inspiron this device isn’t officially supported by Windows 11, and I used an easy2boot drive to install it on a legacy bios. This computer is quite slow with windows 11, and yes I’m sure it would be much smoother with Linux, but windows is currently the most common operating system that people more commonly use, so I decided to try that. Surprisingly despite the horrible specs of this machine it is still usable, and when I say usable I mean that I’m able to run some modern software on it. Of course this would not be a very good computer as a daily windows machine in fact if you were to buy an i5 that’s just one year newer, the performance would be substantially better. In short computers are getting better, but not everyone needs a better computer, and depending on the person and the use case someone might be fine with a much older computer.
The specs for this Dell Inspiron 1545 :
CPU intel Pentium T4300 2.1Ghz
Ram 4gb DDR2 800Mhz
SSD: 120gb crucial BX500