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there is still quite an advancement. look at the GPU market. every new Nvidia model is quite a leap forward. check the specs of the new game consoles. quite imp

there is still quite an advancement. look at the GPU market. every new Nvidia model is quite a leap forward. check the specs of the new game consoles. quite impressive compared to 10 years ago.

wott 6y ago
I am not sure they impress many people any more, in the sense that only a few specific use cases benefit from them and awaits them, while the needs of a vast majority of people on the consumer market have been satisfied with low end devices for quite many years. It was very different across the '90s, when improvements in speed and capacity were tremendous and had an actual and dramatic impact on almost everyone's usage. There were also massive price drops in those days; now for many years prices are pretty stable (I guess they couldn't really go much lower), the only notable exception of which I can think is the SSD price/GB which finally dropped significantly during the last 2(?) years).
anthk 6y ago
That's nothing. From 1992 to 1996 you stepped from 320x200 based games and VGA ones to MPEG videos in your computer and games from Doom/Quake to Broken Sword. From a simple buzzer to Audio CD quality. It was the era for multimedia PC's. The changes were huge, really huge.
- 29athrowaway 6y ago
  In that period of time I went from having a 286 with a monochrome display and a dot matrix printer to a "multimedia" computer with Pentium CPU, a 36.6 Kbps modem, color monitor, scanner, inkjet printer, microphone, speakers... And setup my own interactive voicemail with options using Cheyenne Bitware, which I also used for fax. Who would have suspected that in only 13 years from then you would have a better version of all that, plus GPS, bluetooth, etc. in your pocket.
  - anthk 6y ago
    TBH you had those in your pocket too if you were a rich low-middle tier CEO: Pocket PC's, minus BT and the GPS; altough some hybrid models existed.

there is still quite an advancement. look at the GPU market. every new Nvidia model is quite a leap forward. check the specs of the new game consoles. quite impressive compared to 10 years ago.

wott 6y ago

I am not sure they impress many people any more, in the sense that only a few specific use cases benefit from them and awaits them, while the needs of a vast majority of people on the consumer market have been satisfied with low end devices for quite many years. It was very different across the '90s, when improvements in speed and capacity were tremendous and had an actual and dramatic impact on almost everyone's usage. There were also massive price drops in those days; now for many years prices are pretty stable (I guess they couldn't really go much lower), the only notable exception of which I can think is the SSD price/GB which finally dropped significantly during the last 2(?) years).

anthk 6y ago

That's nothing. From 1992 to 1996 you stepped from 320x200 based games and VGA ones to MPEG videos in your computer and games from Doom/Quake to Broken Sword. From a simple buzzer to Audio CD quality. It was the era for multimedia PC's. The changes were huge, really huge.

29athrowaway 6y ago
In that period of time I went from having a 286 with a monochrome display and a dot matrix printer to a "multimedia" computer with Pentium CPU, a 36.6 Kbps modem, color monitor, scanner, inkjet printer, microphone, speakers... And setup my own interactive voicemail with options using Cheyenne Bitware, which I also used for fax. Who would have suspected that in only 13 years from then you would have a better version of all that, plus GPS, bluetooth, etc. in your pocket.
- anthk 6y ago
  TBH you had those in your pocket too if you were a rich low-middle tier CEO: Pocket PC's, minus BT and the GPS; altough some hybrid models existed.