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We reached the point a long time ago where the freedom of the platform is far more important than performance for all but the most demanding tasks (really just

• ghaff 5y ago
  >performance for all but the most demanding tasks Client-side performance is increasingly irrelevant except for, as you say, video editing and a vanishingly small slice of gaming (and that is at least as much about GPUs anyway). But then, clients outside of phones are also increasingly commodities anyway. However, performance on servers remains incredibly important. Of course, you can just throw more hardware at the problem which increases costs but is otherwise perfectly doable for most applications.
  • zozbot234 5y ago
    > Client-side performance is increasingly irrelevant except for, as you say, video editing and a vanishingly small slice of gaming I really don't see it that way. Web browsing used to be considered a very light task that almost any hardware could handle, but the performance demands have been steadily climbing for quite some time.
    • ghaff 5y ago
      Performance and memory requirements have doubtless gone up but I use a five year old MacBook Pro and it's perfectly fine for browsing. Performance isn't really irrelevant of course but browsing generally doesn't push anywhere close to the limits of available processors.