On 04/12/2019 04:37, bob prohaska wrote:
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> 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

In use the Pi-4 /feels/ noticeably faster, but I've not used it for Web
browsing.  Have you checked whether CPU or memory is the limit?  Monitor
both and see whether either is at 100%.  On Windows, Firefox seems to
use quite a lot of memory, so the 4 GB on the Pi-4 (option) might be a
significant gain.

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David
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