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So a well specced but not top-end personal computer in 1983 costs about the same as a simililarly specced computer today and the same as high end phone that eff
by lagadu 8y ago
So a well specced but not top-end personal computer in 1983 costs about the same as a simililarly specced computer today and the same as high end phone that effectively replaces computers for many people? It's kind of underwhelming.
- chrisco255 8y agoSuppose you could teleport an iPhone XS back to 1983...I doubt that anyone would find it underwhelming.
- nkozyra 8y agoThat isn't the parent's point, though. It says relatively comparable computer at relatively comparable price.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoThey are only "comparable" on the relative scale. That aan interesting economic observation of consumers' willingness to spend on "technology". The progress in computing is not "underwhelming" -- a modern smartphone is not just a computer, it's also a telephone, a camera, a movie decoder, a video screen, an audio video recorder, an audio player, a GPS, an accelerometer, a local wireless communicator, and host incredibly advances applications, while also being battery powered, pocket-portable, water resistant, shock resistant, with near 0 electricity cost, noise emissions and heat emissions.
- nkozyra 8y ago> The progress in computing is not "underwhelming" Again, that's not the claim.
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