I’ve been sharing videos like this for a month or two
I have a 2015 MacBook Air I abandoned recently for being so painfully slow to use that I had almost not touched it for months. I have an iPad Air 2 that is basically unusable at this point. Both are 2-3 orders of magnitudes faster than those old computers that work instantly.
But windows and web apps are super slow now too
Think of all the landfills and wasted work hours earning the money needed to fill those landfills. The heavy and rare metals
This is proof that if computers were 10x faster, they would run slower than ours today, because in the past we’ve seen that be true over and over. The software companies will just make heavier and heavier programs and operating systems until we have gained nothing but a significant amount of co2 emissions
This is only true as the software industry keeps piling abstractions on top of abstractions, as Moore’s law allows it. But we’re reaching the end of the Moore and already feeling the effects of it, for example Javascript frameworks priding themselves on performance instead of features.
Give it some time for the industry to finally mature.
Aren't those devices also running non-contemporary OSs? I wonder if installing the factory OS would make them seem fast again, albeit at the cost of 8 years of software updates.
I have a 2015 MacBook Air I abandoned recently for being so painfully slow to use that I had almost not touched it for months. I have an iPad Air 2 that is basically unusable at this point. Both are 2-3 orders of magnitudes faster than those old computers that work instantly.
But windows and web apps are super slow now too
Think of all the landfills and wasted work hours earning the money needed to fill those landfills. The heavy and rare metals
This is proof that if computers were 10x faster, they would run slower than ours today, because in the past we’ve seen that be true over and over. The software companies will just make heavier and heavier programs and operating systems until we have gained nothing but a significant amount of co2 emissions