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This takes me back to the perspective that "wealth is relative". Sure, these arduino and rpi may not be as powerful as the latest intel and amd processors, but
by joshxyz 6y ago
This takes me back to the perspective that "wealth is relative".
Sure, these arduino and rpi may not be as powerful as the latest intel and amd processors, but lol kings and queens hundreds of years ago didn't even have access to these - not even to a goddamn calculator!
- bayindirh 6y agoAlso, required computation power and perceived power is relative. I have a small OrangePi Zero fixed under my desk which runs Syncthing, Transmission, DNSMasq and other small daemons which really makes my life easier and network faster. That little box sits at 0.00/0.00/0.00 load while doing a lot of helpful stuff. A good and very useful computer doesn't have to have a ton of bandwidth, monstrous amounts of power or bag-of-holding level storage to be exciting, interesting and useful at the same time.
- bserge 6y agoAnd that board is like 10x faster than my router, which does similar things with a 560 MHz single core MIPS processor, 128 MB of RAM and USB attached storage.
- bayindirh 6y agoOriginal Raspberry Pi is more powerful than my Old P2-266 computer with a Voodoo-II accelerator on board. That's unbelievable and very exciting IMHO.
- bserge 6y agoOh I fondly remember my Pentium MMX 200 Mhz with a Voodoo 2 and a whole 64 MB of RAM. It even ran Windows XP after upgrading to 128 MB of RAM! I was pretty sad when I found out it would not run GTA III :D
- bayindirh 6y agoOh, GTA3 was heavily nVdia optimized. A low end nVidia card would smoke a higher end ATI at GTA3 and that was unfair.