[necron2600]

Glad to have hamei back! Have missed you man.

tseter, your opinions are valid. This is an SGI/IRIX board in the end.. so many here will be happy to defend SGI hardware . Many businesses may not even need more than simple apps from 2 decades ago these days. As hamei pointed out.. hardware may be faster but software has not really changed much for most productivity use-cases. What has changed a lot is the web and related web browsers.. and not for the best either.. majority being bloated.

[Raion]

The thing I've actually noticed is that browsers have gotten slower and more poorly optimized, and x86 just has had so much development in terms of SIMD, pipelines, etc. that make it excellent as a resource sponge to move through poorly written code. These systems with properly written software don't quite keep up, but they make due with what they got. The fact that a game like Dusk has such low quality graphics yet has such high specs:

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cy...dusk/16120

Kind of shows that the underlying libraries used to make things are just getting more bloated.

[Jacques]

So agree with you Raion, it's everywhere. The CAD software I use (ArchiCAD) was 360mb for v6, blazed along on a 450Mhz G4 with 256Mb of ram and only needed a 8Mb OpenGL gfx card. v20 clocks in around 3.5Gb....and no, we don't have 10x the library parts or any such extravagance, you do need a 4Ghz+ proc with at least 16Gb of ram to use it productively. What's changed, well a lot of the modules (ArchiCAD uses modules, a bit like linked libraries), and these have all bloated in size, for no real good reason.

This code bloat sickness seems to be everywhere.