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Like 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 b
by qubex 9y ago
Like 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.