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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by Chos89 on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:11PM (#13503175)
Don't be a douche, it was a good analogy.
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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by untog on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:50PM (#13503469)
Of course it wasn't. People on laptops and people on desktops are making the same thing, just desktop users are doing so with more horsepower.
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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by aconz2 on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:35PM (#13503756)
Sure we're all making software which is just bits in memory, but I think that's an extreme simplification. Maybe you're thinking of how we're all just editing text to make programs? But then that doesn't account for what you do with the program you just wrote.

I think you're thinking of using more horsepower for strong scaling, which is a good use, but I'm more referring to weak scaling. You can work on bigger problems with more horsepower, not just solve the smaller ones faster.

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