John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I remember one day, way back when, at the time we got some new PCs in 
> our office.  The machines were much faster than the machines they 
> replaced, and yet I saw fit to predict that "one day someone will be 
> using this machine and say, 'I am sick of this slow piece of 100MHz 
> garbage.' "

  Curiously, the enormous speed at which "sufficient" computing power
was increasing has slowed down a lot.

  If you bought the top-of-the-line, brand new Intel processor in 1995,
by 2000 it was hopelessly outdated and slow, and you couldn't play almost
any new games with it.

  However, if you bought eg. a top-of-the-line Pentium4 in 2004, nowadays
in 2009 you can still play most new games just fine (assuming you upgrade
your graphics card, of course), and it's still rather competitive in speed
for most applications. Granted, it's in no way at the top anymore, but the
difference between these last 5 years is significantly smaller than the
difference between eg. 1995 and 2000.

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                                                          - Warp

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