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by rumanator 2177 days ago
> Gmail and the IDE take ten seconds to load,

Those tasks are IO-bound, not CPU-bound.

Your concerns have no basis whatsoever.

> Youtube is possibly the single largest root cause for users upgrading laptops over the past 10 years.

No one in the whole world feels the need to upgrade to a high-end workstation because of YouTube videos.