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RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! (hackaday.com)
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[–] 52 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Just because they've trained you to believe you need the latest 2nm chips (which is conveniently their highest margin product) doesn't mean you really need them.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    So personal computers of year 1999 gave their users that feeling of magic that can still be felt from media of that time, and state-of-the-art chips were being produced in fabs located not only on Taiwan, but USA, Israel, elsewhere.

    Personal computers of today don't give any feeling of magic to most their users, you have to look for it.

    Yet considering a standard still above what you realistically need is somehow lowering your standards.

    In year 2006 they'd say about computers how many books you can fit into this or that volume of memory, or which calculations you can perform, sometimes, to give you perspective. They don't do that now, because then you'd be depressed how many resources you are using for something more vulgar than porn.

    It's just sad.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    For most people, computers became powerful enough around the year 2005. A machine from late in the Windows XP era could run 3D games, CAD software, edit video, communicate with the entire world through broadband internet. What abilities have PCs taken on since? So much processing power filled up by doing the same tasks less efficiently for no reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Well CAD software has made leaps and bounds since then. Anyone who used CAD back in the day would know what an unstable clusterfuck it was and how much longer it took than now.

    A lot of software has gotten much better, including "core" Foss like Linux and FFMPEG. There is just 10x as much software that is horrible, and windows has gotten so much worse to the point that it feels like computers have made no progress when you use it.

    Also, CPUs nowadays use about the same power as they did 20 years ago but with an order of magnitude more processing power, and the idle power consumption is much much much lower. The first Core 2 Duo had a 65W TDP, the same as modern Ryzen 5. GPUs are just out of hand with power consumption because of profit-driven game companies and AI.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I will assert that, again, for most people, instead of computers remaining at the same TDP but increasing vastly in processing power, they would have been fine with the same processing power at vastly decreased TDP. Look at how long people held onto Win 7, and how long they held onto Win XP before that. Because they were fine, possibly better than the new offering, especially since you already owned it. Some time around 2012, anyone who wasn't a power user ran out of reasons to get excited for new computers.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I would agree, if websites and webapps wouldn't be so bloated as they are. if the rich wouldn't make us to downgrade out of their gluttony. but also, old technology is not that easily available. production lines have been shut down long ago, and if everyone went to the used market, nothing would be available even there anymore.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago

    I agree. Most people are spoiled little lazy ass brats now. Im so glad i wasn't born any later so I can actually appreciate what we have.

    At the same time, fuck these billionaire accelerstioniats for trying to destroy earth while taking what little enjoyment away we can have.

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