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Maybe the early 2010s? SSDs were ubiquitous and cheap enough for at least the OS and the most commonly used applications and games. Around that time CPU perform
by MrMember 5y ago
Maybe the early 2010s? SSDs were ubiquitous and cheap enough for at least the OS and the most commonly used applications and games. Around that time CPU performance plateaued for a while. There were improvements but nothing like going from single core to multi-core, or the raw speed improvements from earlier generations. The processor I bought in 2011 easily lasted me until around 2018 without issue or any real desire to upgrade (and that was for gaming, if all I was doing was general purpose computing I'd still be using it).