ok, maybe i won't find any devs to back akonadi out of kde-pim after all

[Martin Steigerwald]

Martin Steigerwald - 21.03.18, 09:02:
> Also, Kontact in itself does not need all of the 16 GiB. In fact I have two
> Plasma sessions running at once and the memory is still often nearly
> completely used. After the hibernation this night, the laptop uses about 5
> GiB in RAM and about 1,6 GiB in swap (due to the hibernation process, not
> due to any real need for swap during run time). Usually the machine has
> more than half of its RAM just available for caching.

Of course this is with all the rest of two entire Plasma sessions on dual 
screen display, which means two copies of everything. Each with some 
activities, different background images for each activity. And one quite 
insane Akregator setup.

> Of course I applaud that you want to spend some of your money to improve
> your situation with KMail and Akonadi and I think this can work. I had my
> employer spend some money on the – still somewhat dated – laptop. This did
> also work. And I spent some of my time to help improving the current
> situation.
> 
> I don´t see how any of these approaches is right or wrong. They are just
> different. […]

What I can tell about my approach: The hardware upgrade had an *immediate* 
effect. Not just on KDEPIM + Akonadi. I´d also done it if I would need to pay 
it myself at some time.

Its still good and important to fix up the current issues in Akonadi, but if 
quite decent hardware helps me to be able to use KDEPIM + Akonadi with quite 
some comfort, I am all for it. It gave immediate relief. I am not into using a 
computer with a harddisk anymore. The change has been like from floppy disk to 
harddisk. Using a computer made just so much more fun again.

I even did not bother to have this laptop replaced by a newer, even faster 
model. My experience with it is good enough as it is. Such a ThinkPad T520 can 
be had for about 300 Euro from used laptop resellers, add in an SSD and 8 oder 
16 GiB of RAM, and be done with it. Quite an effective use of money if you ask 
me. Although I´d probably go with T530, as AFAIK it is the last where firmware 
could probably be replaced by Coreboot and Intel Management Engine be 
disabled, due to it not using Intel Boot Guard crap. Also T530 also has USB 3 
on board.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin