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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by ksec on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:30AM (#29001616)
It is always interesting to look back. It is clear Intel barely made any improvement since 2016. And the jump from 2014 to 2016 wasn't that spectacular in terms of IPC. PCI-E also happened to stuck at PCI-E 3.0 for a long time. DDR (5) improvement slowed to be point all resources went to LPDDR. ( Although one could argue LPDDR was more in demand ). DRAM and NAND price rise because of Supply and Demand cycle for 3 years. Crypto causes GPU price hike. HDD price only went back to normal in 2016 after the Thailand flood. And HDD roadmap such as HAMR, MAMR were all 5+ years behind. Wireless 802.11ax suffered 3-4 years delay compared to original schedule. Took a long time to agree on NBase-T.

We basically have a 5+ year gap of little improvement in PC Industry. ( Comparatively speaking ).

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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by laurent92 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:58PM (#29006162)
In parallel:

7 year gap, during which Apple also experimented with the trashcan, the emoji touchbar, the shallow keyboard, the non-magsafe non-SD connectors. It was like a pause on personal computing.

7-year gap from 2013 to 2020 where social media became political machines, and all companies became cloud-first.

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Re:Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises by ksec on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:52AM (#29010618)
Oh Yes. It is interesting to look back now.

Strange decade indeed. Unless you are in US and the financial disaster hit hard, then I think I look back in 2010 that 2000s were comparatively uneventful.

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