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The difference is that you can now casually manipulate a spreadsheet of the size that would choke a supercomputer back then … on an iPad. My watch has orders o

• PeterisP 4y ago
  We sell entry level computers that choke on small spreadsheets and are less responsive than the same size spreadsheet was 25 years ago on a computer with a thousand times less computing power. Yes, we can handle much larger data now with proper hardware, however, most people don't do that, their needs for documents and spreadsheets are just the same as it was earlier, but modern systems somehow manage to be worse despite having orders of magnitude more processing power and working memory.
  • bombcar 4y ago
    The icon image for the hard drive on MacOS is larger than the entirety of the original Mac system disk.