My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks/But it was obsolete before I opened the box/You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique/
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great/If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight.
These days, my parent's 8-year-old computer with 8GB+ of memory, a high-end (for the time) CPU, and an SSD is good enough for everything they do.
In the 10 years between 2011 and 2021, the only computing development to make my jaw drop was the SSD (well, maybe LCD multi monitors, too). I just upgraded a 2009 vintage AMD desktop that was headed for recycling with an SSD, and it's once again useful.
Smartphones came further, obviously, starting from nothing in 2006m but I see 2014-2015 as the start of a plateau. When we started seeing glass-backed cases and folding screens, I knew we'd reached the land of diminshing returns.
I think that's the thing that is most amazing to me - once we got to the SSD era there really haven't been amazing "performance leaps" like we used to have in the 90s-early 2000s.
I remember selling my gaming computer at college every 3-6 months and building the new hotness and it being NOTICEABLY better each time.
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks/But it was obsolete before I opened the box/You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique/ Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great/If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight.
These days, my parent's 8-year-old computer with 8GB+ of memory, a high-end (for the time) CPU, and an SSD is good enough for everything they do.