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Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed by xiaoma on Sunday September 18, 2011 @06:05AM (#3009893)
>Another turning point in the last 10 years is that basically any PC made since 2000 will probably be sufficient for what most normal users want. We get increasingly powerful CPUs that most people just don't need.

This is utterly ridiculous. My 2009 ASUS laptop struggles with Starcraft 2. I'm NOT happy with that. And it's not like I'm some extreme outlier playing FPS action games, either. I just want a to play a really popular, really mainstream game. The people who don't even want more power than a year 2000 PC are the old, the slow adopters and the boring.

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Re:Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed by zokier on Sunday September 18, 2011 @07:26AM (#3009997)
Gaming is often considered to lay outside "what normal users want". It's also an area where laptops are especially weak, and I'd guess that even in your case the GPU is more limiting factor than CPU. Reasonably built gaming desktop from 2009 would certainly run Starcraft 2.
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