3 ms·

> Computers get much better every couple years Did you write this from 2010? _Consumer_ computer products has been barely getting any better for a decade now.

• switch007 3y ago
  The M1 didn’t impress you?
  • ben_w 3y ago
    I only got around to replacing a 2013 MacBook Air with an M1 MacBook Air last summer. The M1 is better when performance matters, like AI… but most of my experience isn't performance limited anyway. The improvements the M1 brought used to be the normal rate of change each year, and their absence since 2013 was how I was able to keep using that machine all that time. Now, the phones? Those have improved significantly. The cameras, the on-device AI, and where those two things were blended together - night photography, and translating text within images (even though image translation was first demonstrated on phones in 2010, it's a much better experience now).
• Dylan16807 3y ago
  Did you write this from 2018? There was a huge period of stagnation but AMD started progressing very well and Intel got back on the train too. "Wow" or not, processors are at least twice as fast per core compared to several years ago, and they have double the cores too. And a 4070 is more than 5x as fast as a 770. When I see articles talking about electric car improvements that are possible in the next handful of years, 2x is usually at the high end. None of them go near 5x.