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Laptop with a 3 y/old i5-8259U. How many years can it still be fast?
I got a good deal at Amazon's Black Friday, the usual price is 600€ and this one was 440€. I just checked it was an i5 with 8GB RAM and got it right away. The laptop and cpu are new, it's just a 3 years old i5 model.
But I'm noticing it to stutter and lag a bit, meaning it's really worse than my previous Ryzen 5 2500U with 12GB RAM, when the comparisons of the cpus I read online said the i5 is way better in theory but in practice it isn't at all. I used the 2500U for 2 years and it was wonderfully fast without any stuttering or lagging.
So I still can return it to Amazon, what can I expect from this processor 3 years old with no chance to add more RAM as it's welded limited to 8GB.
Thanks.
Last edited by kmint; 07 Dec 2021 at 12:53.