Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
elshandra@lemmy.world 5 months agoIf this was an economically scalable proven thing today, phones wouldn’t be sold with batteries in 5 years.
Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
elshandra@lemmy.world 5 months agoIf this was an economically scalable proven thing today, phones wouldn’t be sold with batteries in 5 years.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It is doable, but it’s not practical. Technology moves so fast nowadays, a 10 year old i7 is easilly surpassed by a modern day i3.
Don’t get me wrong, I use old tech all the time, but it’s becoming increasingly impractical to do so.
elshandra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah so you’ll just move your battery from your i17 to your i18.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I was talking about desktop CPUs, but the same principle applies to any sort of SoC or CPU. What is “the best” today is surpassed within a month or two.
This is also why I only buy second hand computer equpment. There’s no point, it’s extremely expensive the day it hits the market, and in a year, it’s like 1/3 of the price. This is especially true for GPUs.