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Or we could just write better applications such that I don't need a 64gb RAM laptop in the future to browse the web and play an FPS

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I use my laptop to spawn virtual machines for various things: potentially unsafe or otheewise sensitive applications, complete development environments for the projects I am working on for a long time and I don't want to be disturbed by unrelated changes, for testing environments, evaluation, learning.

I could have a workstation but doing this on my laptop saves me the hassle of having multiple environments and makes it portable.

It's not aimed at people browsing the web and playing FSPses though, is it?

Give it time, my 2008 lenovo was originally marketed as a "photoshop-workstation". Now it chugs to even boot any Windows operating system that takes updates.

give it a break, it is a decade old! my x1 carbon is 5 years old and while it handles the majority of day to day tasks its starting to feel its age now, hopefully the x1 extreme will carry me through another 5 years

I would recommend cleaning the contact points on the CPU and heat sink. The thermal compound disintegrates over time, the fan and any intake/exhaust ports should be cleared. My 2011 XPS 17 was struggling to boot and running full fan on idle, after I took it apart and cleaned it, it improved significantly.

Edit: struggling to run efficiently and satisfactorily fast.

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