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I have been looking around for a replacement laptop. Historically I have primarily looked at 3 numbers. RAM, hard drive size and CPU speed. It is just for runni
by andyjdavis 10y ago
I have been looking around for a replacement laptop. Historically I have primarily looked at 3 numbers. RAM, hard drive size and CPU speed. It is just for running one or more IDEs so I don't have any particularly special requirement.
I feel like CPU speeds have plateaued. Not so long ago getting a new machine after a few years meant getting a new CPU that was vastly quicker whereas all of the laptops I am looking at are only marginally faster than my ~3 year old laptop.
My hard drive requirements are not huge so it looks like I am essentially buying a new laptop just to get more RAM.
- Kliment 10y agoThe 3 numbers for me are battery life, linux compatibility, cost (in that order)
- robocat 10y agoThe most important speed up you can currently get is changing to an NVMe SSD running at 3 times the speed of a SATA SSD. However, for many devices it difficult to wade through specs working out if you are actually getting NVMe (or whether you are just getting M2 SATA at the slower speed instead).
- kazinator 10y agoThat is an important speedup if you access a lot of data compared to what your DRAM can cache, or often do a full reboot (which means cold re-reading a lot of executable images from storage). Max out the RAM first.
- bobsil1 10y agoWe're dumping too much energy into a tiny chip for heat to dissipate. At GHz speeds we can handle inbound photons in real time at their native frequencies. What needs to happen: slower, low power, massively parallel neuromorphic chips.