I’m running darktable on two different systems.
One is a refurbished 2021 lenovo laptop,i5 11gen, 16GB+512GB+1TB library SSD, intel Xe
The other is a 2017 Asus rog strix fx502, i7 7700, 16GB, 512 GB disk, space to add the 1TB drive from the lenovo and has a gfx1060 Ti graphics card
Both run Debian 13 with nvidia drivers on the asus
They feel equally fast in office stuff and library browsing in Darktable
But…
Even though the asus is slighty slower, heavy modules like diff&sharp are way faster on the nvidia card compared to the lenovo’s office Xe (both seem to use opencl)
the asus suffers from a funky keyboard,a very noisy fan (not the blazing noise, but really rattling) and a broken battery. The screen on the asus is better than the lenovo lcd
The dillema: I can fix the Asus for about €100 in parts. Is it worth it?
Mainly because I would like to try stuff like nind denoise and the spoed advantage with multiple demanding modules