Originally posted by Leopard
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I really doubt that the kind of "normie" people you speak of are going to be the ones still using Haswell, especially since said people are also more likely to use laptops and laptops around that era tended to have internal batteries instead and these same "normie" people not only aren't going to be aware of and/or following best practices to prolong long-term battery life but are also very much not going to be replacing an internal battery and would instead follow the route of "just buy a new laptop".
Desktop users are also more likely to have moved on to newer hardware for performance reasons - remember, Haswell maxes out at only 4core/8thread which is very much considered entry-level nowadays considering that i3 CPUs have used that configuration since early 2020 (you know, right before everybody and their dog decided to buy a new home PC).
You can rule out workstation and business users as well as there wouldn't be a flood of cheap LGA1150 Xeon CPUs on ebay otherwise.
And don't forget that Haswell launched before SSDs really hit the mainstream "normie" PC user, so that'll also make a dramatic difference in terms of the performance that these less-savvy users perceive between Haswell and anything newer (even if the single-threaded performance difference between something like Haswell and Comet Lake isn't that different).
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