About this episode

Rob Braxman discusses his experience using an old laptop and challenges the perception of computer performance.

I was forced to use an old 5 year old laptop for the last two weeks and it opened my eyes to the bill of goods that we've been sold. I didn't notice any significant performance difference with the majority of things that I do with my daily driver. And yet the old computer specs would leave you to believe it would drag slowly. Let's analyze why. ---------------------------------- BraX3 Privacy Phone and Brax Open_slate Tablet is on https://braxtech.net ----------------------------------- Brax Virtual Phone, De-Googled Phones, BytzVPN, BraxMail, BraxRouters are available on https://brax.me ----------------------------------- Merch Store https://my-store-c37a50.creator-spring.com/ ----------------------------------- I'm the Internet Privacy Guy. I'm a public interest technologist. I'm here to educate. You are losing your Internet privacy and Internet security every day if you don't fight for it. Your data is collected with endless permanent data mining. Learn about a TOR router, a VPN , antivirus, spyware, firewalls, IP address, wifi triangulation, data privacy regulation, backups and tech tools, and evading mass surveillance from NSA, CIA, FBI…

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