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by dh2022 5 days ago
A beast if a Windows PC to do what? Run Trams, Excel, Outlook, and a browser all at the same time? We could do that just fine in 2010…
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Just give it a year or two and Windows will drag that sucker into the mud and run everything just a sluggish as ever.

The idea that any hardware performance increase will be eaten up by terrible software is an evergreen. A computer that could serve as the single server for a medium size enterprise 20 years ago, is no longer able to serve as a desktop for a receptionist. I'm not even sure we're talking diminishing returns anymore, we're probably past the point of maximum yield and into the negative returns at this point.