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people do not need $2000 Facebook and email machines

I dunno, Facebook and GMail seem to get slower each month. They're unusably slow, even in Chrome on Windows, on both my and my wife's circa-2008 machines.



HTML5 combined with crazy CSS can make a C2D crawl these days. It's not just Flash anymore that's sucking CPU power down.


I still use Facebook on old iPad 2. And it goes faster as the same day I've bought it.


That's generally the solution to the problem of accessing the Web on old PCs: request the mobile version of the website. Heck, with enough trickery you can even get Opera Mini to run.




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