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Re:ASML EUV Lithography Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track by taneq on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:06AM (#36929944)
This has gotta be peak HN. "I built a desktop 8 years ago using these components which were pretty normal at the time." "No they weren't." There were like 10 different brands of 64GB 2.5" SATA SSDs to choose from at the time, in the most popular PC components shop in the city, so it wasn't just my little niche. Plenty of people had laptops, sure, but most daily-driver work machines were still desktops.

Maybe it was different where you live. That's OK.

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Re:ASML EUV Lithography Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track by lockhouse on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:27AM (#36932196)
The minute you said custom built from components you went off the rails of my argument. There is nothing standard or common about that. Very few people build their own computers from components, nor should they. It also ignores the fact that most people buy laptops.

I am talking about the memory and storage configuration of the "typical" computer that an average consumer will buy from a big box store or a website. This has been 8GB/256GB SSD for a long time now. That is my source of complaint. Growing up in the 80s and 90s there would be absolute leaps in memory and storage every time you would upgrade your computer. That is no longer the case. We are just now starting to see some 16GB/512GB configurations appear on consumer default configurations after what, almost a decade?

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Re:ASML EUV Lithography Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track by wtallis on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:35PM (#36935667)
> There were like 10 different brands of 64GB 2.5" SATA SSDs to choose from at the time, in the most popular PC components shop in the city, so it wasn't just my little niche.

Your story gets even weirder! Sourcing components from the local brick and mortar store when building your own desktop usually negates most of the benefits of building your own desktop computer. It's not entirely surprising that they had an excess of outdated SSDs on display.

> Plenty of people had laptops, sure, but most daily-driver work machines were still desktops.

Are we suddenly confining the discussion to corporate-owned office PCs, or do you genuinely not understand that laptops have been outselling desktops for a very long time?

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