Originally Posted by
Dashers
Indeed, you get a SSD for access times not throughput (although that's also pretty swish too).
I think it would be quite interesting to see how "perfectly good" old computers handle modern day-to-day workloads. e.g. running an up-to-date OS and surfing Javascript heavy web-sites. The day-to-day workload of the home PC hasn't changed in terms of function for a long time. Writing documents, calculating spreadsheets, sending emails and surfing the web. If it wasn't for games, media encoding (which to be fair, this P4 has been running a transcoding media server just fine on) and professional things like virtual servers - could an old computer still be perfectly serviceable?