Intel Corp (INTC)

[Golfbum]

We do more than browse and watch email in our house although we do plenty of that.

I do a lot of simulation and realtime database things for my ham radio hobby that would choke a 10 year old PC. I have plenty of friends who complain about their old PCs trying to do similar things and complain loudly.

My wife does embroidery and her software is quite consumptive. It was a noticeable improvement when I replaced her old desktop with a Core i5 laptop a couple of years ago.

My daughter's Lightroom and Photoshop work often bring her 2 year old quadcore to its knees and I'll probably swap her MB out for a Skylake model with Win10 early 2016.

And that's not even for accounting for the fact that a PC that old even with the best of intentions is likely loaded with adware if not malware. I find that kind of people I've run into who hang on to their old machines have little clue why they run so slow. Once they see what it's like to run a clean modern machine they're surprised. They still may be reluctant to change...

gb