Dell Optiplex 3040 or some configurations of Lenovo M700 may be using 6th gen Intel CPU with DDR3.

that was like $80 last year.

iPhone 12 wasn't low end

The same applies at the low end, the grand parent comment even agrees.

You buy a new phone every two years, it comes with a camera, a cpu, a gpu, a host of sensors. Same as phones did two years ago, and ten years before that.

I don’t use my current smart phone in any ways that are different to the iMate PDA2K I had twenty years so.

https://www.gsmarena.com/i_mate_pda2k-962.php

    > You buy a new phone every two years, it comes with a camera, a cpu, a gpu, a host of sensors. Same as phones did two years ago, and ten years before that.

I am confused by this comment. I said that each time I buy a new low-end mobile phone, there are large improvements in the quality of screen, camera, cpu/gpu, and other sensors. Sure, I have had a 4k camera on a low-end mobile for about 10 years now, but the quality (light/colour) of photos and videos has improved dramatically.

How often does your browser freeze up when you open a webpage? How often does your phone browser dump its memory when you switch to another tab and then switch back? Eg if you were writing a post and opened another tab to go check some fact then the post in the original tab gets deleted.

Because that's what happens if you use an old cheap phone in the modern day.

I even had a phone that would occasionally just crash when on a heavy website and the onscreen keyboard popped up. That was not at all infuriating!!! Especially when it would crash when I try to refine a Google search.

Old cheap phone is not the same as modern low end.

I mean, as an outsider, this is exactly how it seems to be working.

Damn, Rapidus couldn't come soon enough.

> Terafab, Tenstorrent, SMIC and Cerebras Systems are a few more TSMC competitors.

Huh? Tenstorrent is a fabless Si company designing cores and does not complete with TSMC. Cerebras is a fabless joke, also not competing with TSMC.

That didn't prove anything. Modules get rewritten, but does that make it a full rewrite? That's Ship of Theseus material there...

THIS. This boggles my mind ever since zswap landed in the kernel.

Actually, forget zswap. Why the fuck swap's on disk format hasn't been compressed in the last 2 decades when processing power has been abundant and compressors like lzo/lz4 has been in kernel tree.

What a huge sin. God forbid I could install whatever the version I want on the device I paid for.

> 15.6"

eww

The target customer for this wants a laptop that will live in a dedicated space and rarely/never travel, except to the couch. 15 inches is perfect for that.

I'm pretty sure there were more DRAM manufacturers back then, and spinning up a new fab probably didn't require as much know-how, capital or even time.