On paper, my tiny laptop should be able to smash through the thing I’m doing faster than the slightly more cumbersome one with less RAM, VRAM, or useful cooling

In practice, the cumbersome one is smashing the task relative to the tiny one performing an equivalent job a few weeks ago

computers are weird

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I literally can’t think of anything which isn’t equivalent or beefier on the tiny laptop except for a few irrelevant security features. Even SSD should be faster.

probably next week I should sit down and tell Windows to Perform Performantly

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