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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J-H" data-source="post: 9414544" data-attributes="member: 7020951">Cell phones have, but computers?  Not really.  Graphics get a bit better for high end computer games I guess, and if you want to run AI toys you have to have Win 10 because they didn't program them to work with 7, but PC hardware speeds haven't gone up by a factor of 5-10x in 10 years like they did from 1995 to 2005 where we went from a 120mHz to 400mHz to a 1.6gHz processor in a decade.Newer computers are worse in my opinion because they have more recent versions of Windows.  The Recent Documents menu I use 50-100 times a day is missing from my work laptop (Win 11), which causes extra friction and wasted time opening and closing folders to get to a document I had up 2 minutes ago,  Onedrive bogs down my entire internet connection to the point where it interferes with wifi calling to sync a single spreadsheet, newer versions of Office are SAAS instead of purchased, etc.  Win 7 to Win 10/11 is a downgrade, not an upgrade, in terms of day to day quality of life.Other than gaming, everything I do for my job and entertainment (e-mail, spreadsheets, D&D, videos on Youtube, etc.) could be done on a Windows 98 or Windows XP computer from 2004 or thereabouts, assuming the browser could handle the greatly increased file sizes caused by some of the plugins and formatting tools that somehow manage to bloat 32kb worth of text into multiple MB for the sake of looking slightly prettier.I promise I'm not 80... only 41!There is still improvement going on at the GPU/AI/server level, and with phones (although 2017 to 2024 phones really all seem about the same but with more memory), but on the desktop level I'm not seeing it.But also, I'm not the target market for it... just like I'm not the target market for 5.24.  Companies prefer people who are always buying the newest and greatest and biggest and shiniest, because those are the ones they actually make money from.</blockquote>

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