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Because smartphones are in the exponential phase of development, much like computers were in the late 90's early 00's. Smartphone silicon has changed dramatical
by aroch 12y ago
Because smartphones are in the exponential phase of development, much like computers were in the late 90's early 00's. Smartphone silicon has changed dramatically in the last 4 years, laptop silicon has not.
- fleitz 12y agoTo be fair CPU performance has massively improved since '07, however, it just doesn't matter because everything you wanted to do is fast enough. If you take an modern game and run it on an '07 PC it will be very slow at max settings. Back in 06-07 it you needed a 15x15K drives and a controller with 256 MB of cache RAM to hit 800 MB/sec random read/write. Now you can drop in two $200 SSDs
- aroch 12y agoThey are still, in comparison to mobile phone SoCs, incremental increases in power. Especially the Core-i series of the last few years. On top of that they still sell computers with dual-core celeron and pentium processors because they're "good enough" and instruction sets haven't changed much. Smartphone SoCs have seen leaps and bounds both in the physical silicon and in stuff like instruction set support, hw codecs and the like.