New machine

8 years after the previous one, I bought a new computer and available hardware has changed quite a lot!

I bought an Asus PN50 with an AMD Ryzen 4800U, which is probably 30 or 40 times smaller than my previous machine but more powerful while using a lot less power...

I fit it with 32GB ram (with a second slot free to go to 64 later) and WD BLACK SN750 1TB NVME SSD and performance is really impressive for such a small machine with low power consumption (building an x86_64 Linux kernel with defconfig takes 2m35s). 

Writing to a file is far from the announced 3000MB/s Sequential Write Performance but still crazy high compared to what I was used to:

$ dd bs=16M count=512 if=/dev/zero of=test oflag=sync
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB, 8.0 GiB) copied, 11.4705 s, 749 MB/s

It also gives me accessible USB-A, USB-C and micro SD ports which is very convenient for example to write images to USB sticks or SD cards.