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No, what changed is our expectation of what such a device should be capable of doing. You're not gonna load a 1080p YouTube video on 400 MHz.
by input_sh 2y ago
No, what changed is our expectation of what such a device should be capable of doing. You're not gonna load a 1080p YouTube video on 400 MHz.
- ozim 2y agoSome would say 1080p is bloat when you can watch videos perfectly fine in lower resolution ;)
- skeledrew 2y agoI remember when I got a 1080p monitor and watched some slightly old content (~480p) on it. The experience was very lackluster. Now I'm getting a similar feeling with a recently-bought 4k-capable laptop, and watching 720p content that looked perfectly fine on the 1080p monitor. I don't even want to think about the 480p archives. Almost makes me not want to upgrade devices.
- Bluestein 2y agoI would, perhaps ... PS. I quite distinctly remember the point in time when I finally said my then desktop machine couldn't move video, and it really was time to consider an upgrade ... (My 500 Mhz K6 II - DAE remember those AMD chips? - had finally become too slow. Video was 'unstoppable' ...
- tambourine_man 2y agoThe parent wrote 40mhz. You could probably do 1080p on 400mhz if you’re clever