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I would say an important point of note is that a lot of people who would consider themselves power users still use Intel chips from the early 2010's. Coming fro
by thesephist 9y ago
I would say an important point of note is that a lot of people who would consider themselves power users still use Intel chips from the early 2010's. Coming from someone who's using a Sandy Bridge i7.
- qubex 9y agoLike you I'm using a quand-core 'Server' Mac Mini from 2012 with a Sandy Bridge processor. What exactly do you make of this? That we are not power users? (Not being sarcastic or anything like that, I've been thinking along these same lines for a while, but I cannot quite put my finger on it.)
- ido 9y agoThat desktop CPU performance gains have slowed.
- blackflame7000 9y agoWell the power wall has kind of set an upper bound on clock speed. (although kaby lakes can do 5GHz no problem which is pretty impressive) So until a fundamental breakthrough in heat extraction happens, were kinda left with only power efficiency and parallelism as ways to increase performance (which desktops have done). Mores law has still more or less held true thus far. I think ARM just had a long way to catch up but it will eventually hit physical barriers at some point and performance increases will slow.