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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
That's exaggerating. I'm forced to use 32-bit Windows 7 due to equipment that doesn't have 64-bit drivers ergo, user-accessible RAM is just around 2.5GB or thereabouts. Iirc, it's got either quad-core Sandy or Ivy. With a Samsung 840 250GB, everything's quite zippy. Apart from number-crunching tasks, there's no noticeable difference in performance between that and faster builds with 16GB RAM.
Heck, I've got a couple of Celeron 1037U Mini-ITX builds with 2x1GB DDR3 and 128GB M.2 (SATA) SSD. These were basically built from leftover parts except for the motherboard with embedded CPU. They handle typical user tasks (web browsing, Facebook, Tumblr, Word, Excel, etc) including Calibre (iirc, library of ~3,000 epubs) just fine.
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Agreed...
I run a wide range of machines. My two most frequently used Windows machines both run Win10. I also run an recent iMac 27" Retina). These range from the iMac (Sierra, i7, SSD, 32gb RAM, external HDs totalling 20tb, ...) & Dell XPS (i7, fast HD, 8gb RAM, external HDs totalling 16tb, ...) to a Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet (~1.5ghz quad-core, 32gb eMMC, 2gb RAM, 64gb microSD). They all run calibre perfectly well, even the tablet where calibre is installed on the secondary drive (microSD card) and there are some 1800 ebook titles and over 3000 actual ebook files.
Yes, the tablet it quite noticeably slower when converting or updated metadata, but its still quite serviceable. One the "big" machines, I generally have 2-3 large apps (Ps, Lr, Id, ...) and several smaller apps (email, browsers, ...) running all day. One the tablet I generally only run one app at a time, though occasionally run calibre, calibre's Editor, and a browser at the same time.