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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
HDDs correlate heavily with lower core counts, and generally signal slower (older) cores, all of which have a big impact on desktop performance related to your web apps.
Browsers are heavily threaded today, and fewer cores means less performance on JS-heavy sites *in particular*.
Less expensive phones, meanwhile, tend to feature MANY cores, but the also tend to suck. A lot:
https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/#devices-1