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>Computers have gotten much faster since May 2010? Really? I've wondered this for a while.... from my (idiotic consumer) perspective it seems like we are movi
by jere 14y ago
>Computers have gotten much faster since May 2010?
Really?
I've wondered this for a while.... from my (idiotic consumer) perspective it seems like we are moving at a snail's pace. If I buy an iMac today, it comes with the exactly same processor as it did 13 months ago. Almost exactly the same as a year before that (all had quad cores at various configurations). And it's not really any different browsing custom PC vendors if I want to keep prices reasonable.
Shouldn't I be able to get a quad-core 7ghz for $2000 by now according to the corollaries of Moore's Law?
- 27182818284 14y agoI am not an expert in this field, but I agree with you from the consumer perspective. E.g., the new macbook airs don't seem radically faster than my macbook from a few years before, it is just thinner. It seems like Moore's law is dead/dying and instead being replaced by Koomey's law, as others have noted http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2011/09/is-koomeys-law-eclipsing-moores-law.html http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2011/09/is-koomeys-law...