Re: a question regarding which laptop for around $1000 that I might install Ubuntu on?

A few years ago, Rick and I "upgraded" our laptops from MacBook Pros with hard drives to MacBook Airs with SSDs. They seemed a ton quicker after that experience despite the drop in CPU speed (albeit with an increase in RAM).

Right now, it's a tough time to shop for used machines as it's Back to School, and much of the good used inventory has vanished, but I recently picked up a mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro with 16gb of RAM and a 1TB SSD for under $1100 (including tax). It's also a core i7, it just isn't a 15".

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On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Subjectively, this laptop seems sluggish to me. The only objective
> measurement I can give you is it takes 10 seconds to run Chromium from
> dmenu if Chromium isn't in cache, whereas on my desktop that timing is
> 1.5 seconds.

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> I hypothesize the most likely differentiation between the machines is
> that the desktop mounts / (and therefore /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin
> and /opt) on an SSD, whereas the laptop mounts everything on a 5400 RPM
> spinning disk. When my laptop's warranty runs out, I might swap in an
> SSD to test that hypothesis.