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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year agoI noticed the same trend for PCs in the last 15 years too. In the late 80s and throughout the 90s, things were advancing at a blistering pace. At the start of 1990, a common configuration was maybe a 20Mhz CPU and 16 MEGAbytes of RAM, and by then end of the decade, we broke the 1Ghz barrier and were putting 512-1GB of memory into our machines.
Yet now, I'm still playing recently released 3D games on a first generation quad core i7 from 2009 just fine (as long as nothing starts spewing too many particles).
Tippon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve noticed that a lot of the reasons to upgrade now are artificial. My wife dug out an old PC to use two monitors recently, but still does the same tasks that she was doing a decade ago. The computer is ridiculously slow though because of ‘updates’.
Bog standard things like checking her emails and opening Word slow the computer for nothing. Even bare Windows runs slowly because of the graphics enhancements.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yep, if you're doing mundane office stuff, you might as well fire up a 386 with Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect. Except for file formats and more shinyness, not a damn thing there has changed.
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 1 year ago
Also windows now just hates running on spinning drives and will get the 100% disk useage issue, the only fix I've found is swapping to an SSD. HDDs are pretty much only useable as secondary drives now.