I don't follow / automatically agree on second part. I have three ThinkPads with i5-2520M that my family and I use daily with windows 10. Email browsing word excel etc. Some light games, lots of photo browsing and sorting and minimal editing via acdsee. If windows 10 is lagging in what is clearly a superior system from specs perspective, something doesn't work right. My first suspicion is ssds in raid as there's a myriday ways to get that wrong, but who knows?
You don't notice the lag unless you've used a MacBook or Linux. If you ever upgrade to an i7 you will see a performance boost and your current system will feel slow. So running Linux on the same specs as Windows you'll see that Windows is slower and after a while as the bloat happens the slowness will become even more apparent.
I mean, yes... My main desktop and laptop are faster for big tasks. It's just that win10 on the 2nd generation mobile Intel is usable as opposed to a deal breaker. I don't yearn for xp from that perspective which never felt particularly snappy on anything. I feel we are at point of asking from windows to be something it is not.
That is true. Windows in the end will always be a mom and pop OS. But with increasing computer literacy I expect Microsoft's market share to dwindle. Btw what about your secondary memory is it SSD or traditional HDD?
In the thinkpads I added a sata ssd to replace original 320gb or 500gb spinners. Either crucial or Intel,nothing fancy. For one of them I replaced the DVD drive with secondary 2tb HDD for photos / movies... Ah ultra bay, how much we miss thee :). The 420s (slimmer version) is basically as lightweight laptop as I need, but has great keyboard and easy modularity of drives memory battery etc. What a time it was to be alive!
My main laptop is ThinkPad t25 which is basically t470 with traditional keyboard layout. 512mb ssd. No room for secondary HDD.
My main desktop is an aging beast - amd fx8350 and rx470 8gb. Bunch of ssd and HDD drives at any given point :).
Speaking of storage, synology 918+ as Nas fwiw.
Bunch of other computers around such as ThinkPad e545 and e580, plus an intel nuc around every tv. None of it fancy anymore, I have no time left for complex vlans or VMs or breakable OS's, but computers are my hammer so there's plenty around :-)
I don't follow / automatically agree on second part. I have three ThinkPads with i5-2520M that my family and I use daily with windows 10. Email browsing word excel etc. Some light games, lots of photo browsing and sorting and minimal editing via acdsee. If windows 10 is lagging in what is clearly a superior system from specs perspective, something doesn't work right. My first suspicion is ssds in raid as there's a myriday ways to get that wrong, but who knows?