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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by meindnoch on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:21AM (#34896945)
>no faster

In terms of latency it's usually slower by an order of magnitude.

There should be a law that mandates developers to use at least two generations older hardware than the average consumer.

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by totetsu on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:30AM (#34897098)
I want my ps2 keyboard port back
Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by marcosdumay on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:43AM (#34898299)
USB doesn't have to be this slow. Some slowness is required, but not this much. (And USB3 doesn't have to be slower than PS2.)

What we get is a result of nobody on the entire stack giving a shit. It's not a technological limitation.

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by toast0 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:48AM (#34898388)
ps2 keyboard/mouse support is still there on modern x86; but you have to carefully shop for motherboards. And if you also want a ps2 mouse, you'll probably need a splitter, 2x ps2 ports on a single board seems to be no longer available.
Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by ticviking on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:17PM (#34898956)
Doing development work on a 10 year old ThinkPad dramatically changed how I think about performance in my software.

With a tiny bit of attention to performance you can do insane things