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> for most of us our PC's are still just as fast as 20 years ago. That is something that needs mending first. 100x faster, yet where did all those cycles go? Se
by Someone 4y ago
> for most of us our PC's are still just as fast as 20 years ago. That is something that needs mending first. 100x faster, yet where did all those cycles go? Seems pathological to me.
Nobody would buy a PC that’s 100 times as fast but doesn’t have new abilities. 20 years ago, Blu-ray didn’t exist yet, and it featured unprecedented full HD video. Today, 4K more or less is the norm. The original iPhone (about 15 years old) had a 480 × 320 pixel screen. The latest ones have 1000+ × 2500+, at ¿quadruple? the screen refresh rate and ¿double? the number of bits per pixel.
Progress is even more enormous with cameras. Resolution had gone up relatively moderately (for iPhone from 2 megapixel ⇒ 48 megapixel), but the software behind it couldn’t realistically run on 20 year old hardware.