assuming computers here means CPUs, honestly i think 70% of this (needing "more processing power") is just marketing and consumerism, 10% is OS bloat and the re

assuming computers here means CPUs, honestly i think 70% of this (needing "more processing power") is just marketing and consumerism, 10% is OS bloat and the rest is probably legitimate. i'm sure 100 JPL astrophysicists will pile in here but i've been using an AMD 3.2ghz quad core processor purchased in 2010 for software development in java, scala, clojure and now golang as a daily driver up until today. i've replaced the RAM twice, power supply once, and the video card once. i proudly use linux so i'm not sure what the situation is like with other OSes, so i'll budget some for things like windows "growing" over the years, but it's just not necessary for me to update the processor until it dies.