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Why do you place more value on "power and memory", than the way people use a device (tablet vs. PC)? Let me give you a clear example: my computer 10 years ago
by alain94040 16y ago
Why do you place more value on "power and memory", than the way people use a device (tablet vs. PC)?
Let me give you a clear example: my computer 10 years ago had 128 MB of RAM. My iPhone has 16 GB of RAM. Does that make my old computer not a computer?
My point is that the usage is what matters. I still use my computer to browse the web, compile code, run Excel and Word, etc.
- jaredmck 16y agopretty sure your iPhone doesn't have 16 GB of RAM- iPhone 4 apparently has 512 MB RAM...so still more than your old computer, but not so drastic.
- alain94040 16y agoTo be pedantic, Flash memory is closer to DRAM than to disks, although it's used for storage. It has similar access cycles as DRAM, the chip architecture of controller plus array is closer than that of a HDD.
- megablast 16y agoSurely it is more important what it is used for, rather than anything else.
- pedalpete 16y agowe're both trying to make the same point. I used 'power and memory' because I consider those to be the equivelant of 'form factor'. Computing won't reach etherealism until we no longer have to consider this form-factor over that form factor, just like we no longer consider memory or speed.