It still feels like more because of the way the cost has risen to the person looking to buy that “median system.” If I spent in the $200s inflation adjusted on

It still feels like more because of the way the cost has risen to the person looking to buy that “median system.” If I spent in the $200s inflation adjusted on my processor 10 years ago I can spend about the same and expect to be in the sand place on the totem pole as before. It would be a mid-range to low mid-range CPU suitable for those sort of tasks. But if I spent $1362 in today’s money in 2013 I got the best graphics card available from Nvidia, the Titan X. Today the best card they sell costs $2,000.