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> It's been fun watching this line be repeated for 30 years without getting more correct. It absolutely is getting more correct. I used to update my desktop ev
by creato 7y ago
> It's been fun watching this line be repeated for 30 years without getting more correct.
It absolutely is getting more correct. I used to update my desktop every year or two. I'm now still on a Core i5 2500 from 2011 and have zero reason to upgrade again, even despite some gaming use.
For phones, it's a bit different because they're back on the part of the performance curve where desktops were years ago and power efficiency is still improving rapidly but I think they're getting close to that crossover point.
- bluedino 7y agoIt seems like for every desktop user who's still on a Sandy Bridge or whatever, there's a user asking for N*2 RAM where N is the maximum currently amount of memory available in a laptop.
- leereeves 7y agoI find that both statements are correct. 10-year old processors are still fast enough (I'm using one) but we need more RAM in 2019 than we needed in 2010.