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> What’s happened since 2015, by contrast? Many people still swear by their 2015 MBPs, the last model before the touchbar debacle. That Haswell based machine wa
by anthony_doan 8y ago
> What’s happened since 2015, by contrast? Many people still swear by their 2015 MBPs, the last model before the touchbar debacle. That Haswell based machine was getting long in the tooth even back then.
Moore's law broke. GHz and those low hanging fruits are gone. I'm using a 2013 MBP. It's a core race now but lots of legacy software that aren't coded for multicore.
- _Microft 8y agoMoore's law still applies if you plot computing power/dollar over time (normalized to purchase power). It's just that all the progress is nowadays in parallel computing chips/GPUs. Here's the progress over 120 years, and spoiler ... 17 orders of magnitude in computing power: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*zWyqQ2EP83gBcLZHGzb-TA.jpeg https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*zWyqQ2EP83gBcLZHG... A very interesting observation is that the switch to transistors and integrated electronics does not stand out. It is just part of the curve.