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honestly, my 5 year old laptop is still plenty fast for what I need. If it weren't for dropped support and websites that force me to upgrade to the latest browser, I'd be happy with 10 year old computers. I honestly want to get off the upgrade roller coaster. (I have in the phone world--happy with my 1st gen iPhone SE)

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My 1st gen iPhone SE is also still going strong. So responsive. They really built it to last.

I just "upgraded" from an iPhone SE to an iPhone 12 mini and realized that the engineers at Slack and Discord must be rocking the latest phones, because their apps fly on the new device in a way that they did not at all on iPhone SE. Other apps see much less of a difference. I have a dream that one day the engineers at those companies will come to work and find their brand new test devices smashed and replaced with iPhone 7s so they can understand exactly how badly their apps perform.

Discord uses React Native, and I wouldn't be surprised if Slack does as well.

Slack is a native app, although it barely looks like one these days :(

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