Why does my 2016 laptop has the same performance as my 2022 laptop?

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Hi,

My 2022 Dell Latitude seems to have the same performance as my 2016 Dell Latitude. Shouldn’t the newer one be faster ?

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What/How do You evaluate?

Please post the hardware specs as detailed as possible.

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Just based on how fast the OS boots, and how fast a qube vm starts.

My 2022 is an i5-1335U, 24 Gb ram, nvme and my 2016 is a i7-6600U, 16 Gb ram, SSD

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Also based on how fast Qubes Global Config loads.

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I would guess that the main bottleneck for those operations would be storage I/O. Your SATA SSD shouldn’t be that much slower than an NVMe SSD in mixed loads. Spinning rust (mechanical hard drives) on the other hand would have been outperformed by a large margin. Laptop harddisk drives, which are optimized for low power and low vibrations, especially suffer from low sequential speeds and abysmal I/O.

As long as there is sufficient RAM and at least a SATA SSD in the old model, I wouldn’t expect a huge performance boost for startup times.

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That’s been my experience. There is little difference between my 10 year old desktop and the 5 year old one. Interestingly, the older one gets better USB transfer speeds.

Overall my Thinkpad is faster than my desktop except on CPU intensive tasks

A good test is how fast an appvm starts.