Charlie Stross1d ago

HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".

Moore's Law is coming to an end. The Macbook Neo says "why choose?"

Nobody needs a laptop with a 40 hour battery life. Nor does anybody needs 200 cpu threads and an AI coprocessor and 256Gb of RAM and 8Tb of SSD. So we're finally seeing the sweet spot in the phase diagram drift inexorably towards the corner labelled "cheap".

Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️
@cstross It reminds me of when people used to ask me whether to get more RAM or a faster processor and I said, "Buy the largest monitor you can afford, and you have any money left over, buy a computer."
Mar 24 at 11:29pmWeb
Show threadKilroy_Was_Here1d ago
@stevendbrewer @cstross That's basically what I did with this computer. Wanted a nice IPS monitor for photo editing, the computer itself was more or less an afterthought.