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End of Moore's law?



On Jul 10, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> 
> I recognize that it is a "better" machine than my two year old laptop, 
> but it ain't all that much better. $120 upgrades that I made a year ago, 
> make a $1000 new laptop almost senseless.

Well... you're getting a faster disk bus and RAM bus, probably more on-die CPU cache, better power handling, larger battery, probably a better screen as well.  So while you may not be getting two times the raw numbers, there's more to a modern computer than just CPU speed.

--Rich P.








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