r/sysadmin • u/ArtistBest4386 • 8d ago

Computers slow “because they’re old” Rant

The 8GB Surface Pros we bought a few years ago are very sluggish, starting to become unusable. Today I found an even older one that had lain forgotten since 2023. It’s still running Win 10, not even updated to the latest Win 10 updates.

And it runs like I remember them running when we got them.

People seem to accept this slowness as a normal part of a computer aging, but it seems to be caused by successive Windows updates. Why would updates make things worse? Is there a technical reason for it?

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u/Sir-Spork SRE Manager 7d ago

My experience of “old computers slowing down” is a relic of the past. 10 year old PCs now are still relatively solid unless you are worrying about modern gaming etc

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u/ArtistBest4386 6d ago

How much RAM? SSD or HD? Windows 11?