[apothegm]

Most of the speed improvements these days seem to be in greater parallelization rather than raw clock speed. That doesn’t affect web browsing much beyond the first few threads. Meanwhile, web front ends are just plain heavy, and network latency often has more effect for client/server apps than client computing power.

[calamaridude]

switching tabs on my macbook pro feels the same as it did 10 years ago! often slower!