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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Back in the 386/486 time hardware changes mattered in terms of functionality. There were new things coming out which factually needed more computing power in terms of number crunching capabilities. Nowdays even the eldest computer an average user might still have up running would be still enough in terms of power to get stuff done without a "set it up and return after lunch" scenario. So they stuff the new gui and os versions with useless optical frills to make them waste computing power on.
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Hrm... maybe I'm sitting here waiting 20 minutes for this distributed computing job that is currently running on 72 CPUs for a total of 190 GHz of processing power for no reason. Maybe I should downgrade! Maybe that computing task that I started at 11:30 am which finished at 5:30 pm, also distributed to about 70 CPUs was also slow because I have "too fast" computers.
