• spiderplant@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We’ve had general purpose computers for decades but every year the hardware requirements for general purpose operating systems keep increasing. I personally don’t think there has been a massive spike in productivity using a computer between when PCs usually had 256-512mb to now where you need at least 8gb to have a decent experience. What has changed are growing protocol specs that are now a bloated mess, poorly optimised programs and bad design decisions.

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      1 year ago

      I personally don’t think there has been a massive spike in productivity using a computer between when PCs usually had 256-512mb to now

      For general use/day to day stuff like web browsing, sure, I agree, but what about things like productivity and content creation? Imagine throwing a 4K video at a machine with 512 MiB RAM - it would probably have troubles even playing it, let alone editing/processing.

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        1 year ago

        Your original comment mentioned general purpose computers. Video production definitely isn’t general purpose.

        What do you mean by productivity?