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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

512GB Seagate HDD 5400 RPM

Sounds like its written by someone that have never owned a Core 2 Duo, as I remember the disk sizes of that time was 500GB, 750GB and 1000GB at 7200 RPM, I think 5400 RPM is slow and mostly used on 2.5" or 5.25" disks.

[–] Damage 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The computer actually came with an SSD, they swapped it because they appreciate the time to think between one operation and the next

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The latest the CPU could've come out is around the time Barack Obama became a household name, at which point 64GB would've been a really big and expensive SSD. They probably wanted space

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