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rj

@Shrigglepuss hah I was telling someone today "computers peaked around Nehalem and SSDs"

1 June at 22:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tacobelllabs.net
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Shrig 🐌

@arrjay I've used a few PCIe 5 SSDs now, it's ridiculous

1 June at 22:39 | Open on godforsaken.website
Mx Jookia

@Shrigglepuss @arrjay

The two biggest computer upgrades I've seen are multicore and SSDs.

1 June at 22:55 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Elda King

@arrjay @Shrigglepuss It really was around that exact time, isn't it?

4-8GB of RAM was good enough for almost everything, we had multi-core processors for parallel tasks, we had GHz clock speeds. Our screens were all at least "high definition" LCDs. Nehalem was kind of a game changer, especially for laptops (lower TDP, good iGPU, some good modern features), and SSDs getting cheaper were the last bottleneck surpassed.

Everything since then was either minor, a huge cost/size/power increase, or actually inconvenient as fuck and less durable.

@arrjay @Shrigglepuss It really was around that exact time, isn't it?

4-8GB of RAM was good enough for almost everything, we had multi-core processors for parallel tasks, we had GHz clock speeds. Our screens were all at least "high definition" LCDs. Nehalem was kind of a game changer, especially for laptops (lower TDP, good iGPU, some good modern features), and SSDs getting cheaper were the last bottleneck surpassed.

2 June at 16:49 | Open on weirder.earth
rj

@eldaking @Shrigglepuss I'm still using a Xeon W3565 for "generic desktop stuff"

SSDs and a newer Radeon and it's...fine, y'know? totally competent day-to-day.

2 June at 16:55 | Open on tacobelllabs.net
Elda King

@arrjay Yeah I imagine it is totally fine, the xeons were beasts.

I still use my Ivy Bridge i5 laptop. The HDD died so it got an SSD, but it got no other upgrades and it is _almost_ enough for everything I do. It probably will fall apart before it stops being useful.

My dad still keeps occasionally using his first-gen i3 laptop (instead of his brand-new, fancier Win11 laptop), just because it has Windows 7 (last decent Windows version).

2 June at 17:15 | Open on weirder.earth
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@arrjay I dunno about Nehalem, but I remember predicting SSDs coming into existence back when I was impressed by SRAM in the 1980s.

For me, the apogee of the personal computer probably still remains the Amiga.

Most code, even on far "faster" systems, doesn't even begin to impress me as much as things which run on OCS Amigas.

Circa 2013/2014 my employer had TrueNAS systems in a CARP HA pair with 384TB of storage, impressive numbers and high availability, sure!

But The Black Lotus's "Eon" with a score by @h0ffman which can run on an OCS/ECS Amiga? Art.

pouet.net/prod.php?which=81094

Glorious, and still enjoyable in 2024!

That past employer presumably long since retired and upgraded that TrueNAS system to something with even more daunting storage numbers and IOPS, and decidedly nothing that stirs my heart, pleases my ears nor impresses me with how much was done with so little.

@Shrigglepuss

@arrjay I dunno about Nehalem, but I remember predicting SSDs coming into existence back when I was impressed by SRAM in the 1980s.

For me, the apogee of the personal computer probably still remains the Amiga.

Most code, even on far "faster" systems, doesn't even begin to impress me as much as things which run on OCS Amigas.

2 June at 19:45 | Open on rap.social
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