Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 02:03:36 +0000 (UTC), bob prohaska 
> declaimed the following:
>
>>Right now the machine is running Stretch, current as of today.
>>There's an 8GB USB flash device for swap but not much is used,
>>typically no more than a few hundred megs.
>>
>         Well, since the R-Pi 4 requires Buster, you've already got a
divergence
> for purposes of comparison.
>
>

Not at all. I don't care if it's running Buster, Stretch or something else.
I just want to know how the machines perform from a usability standpoint.

Indeed, if Buster is substantially better than Stretch in terms of
performance, stability or available browsers that alone might justify
either a new machine or a software update to the old one. I'm just
mindful of the Pi3's limitation to 1 GB of RAM and USB 2.0 access to
swap.

A Pi4's extra RAM and faster I/O are attractive in principle, but I'd
like to know if they help in practice, especially if Buster is a 64 bit
system with all its added overhead.

Thanks for replying,

bob prohaska

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