Big jump in generation performance
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:39 pm
Yesterday I moved my wife from her X220 over to the T580. She has been using the X220 for about a decade and it is only in the last few months that she has complained about the speed of the X220 not keeping up with her workflow.The move from Intel's gen 2 to gen 8 is a huge and noticeable performance improvement. I have had newer spec machines over time, but my wife has loved her X220 and resisted any suggestion to update/upgrade.
So anyway after a decade of the X220 being a main stay of household computing, the last X220 has been retired. It is very impressive all that can be done on old hardware, yet it is astonishing at the advances you notice when you jump over several generations to pretty new hardware. The USB C dock I picked up for the Pinebook Pro just works. When placed on the desk a plugged into the dock, the big monitor pops to life, the batteries charge via the dock and the keyboard and mouse jump to life. It is all very seamless and I find that rather impressive.
So anyway after a decade of the X220 being a main stay of household computing, the last X220 has been retired. It is very impressive all that can be done on old hardware, yet it is astonishing at the advances you notice when you jump over several generations to pretty new hardware. The USB C dock I picked up for the Pinebook Pro just works. When placed on the desk a plugged into the dock, the big monitor pops to life, the batteries charge via the dock and the keyboard and mouse jump to life. It is all very seamless and I find that rather impressive.