Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My dad did mostly some word processing and web browsing on his favorite bunch of sites.
    Processing power was less a problem in the end than the very limited memory (192 MB), even with the super-small-footprint Linux Distro.
    You have to remember, 2008/2009 also was the time of the EEE-PCs, that weren’t that much more powerful compute-wise, but already had at least 1GB of memory…