I’m tinkering with the Atomic PI SBC — Quad Core 1.5ish GHz Intel Atom with 2 Gigabytes of RAM. You can load up an OS and launch Firefox with maybe 3 tabs until

I’m tinkering with the Atomic PI SBC — Quad Core 1.5ish GHz Intel Atom with 2 Gigabytes of RAM. You can load up an OS and launch Firefox with maybe 3 tabs until you run out of memory and have to page out (which will basically hang the device due to eMMC/flash I/O speeds). These kind of specs are incredible for a high-end desktop machine from 15 years ago that would be good for almost anything — gaming, browsing, etc... What happened to software (Linux & Friends, Firefox, etc) that renders hardware obsolete so quickly? Is it just purposeful optimization that uses more RAM to benefit performance elsewhere, or is it truly this disenchantment?