Anyone else disapointed in the speed of computers?

[HungChow]

I think they are still slow!
If Moore's law were even a fraction true we should all have HAL 9000 on the desktop by now
whats the deal?1GHz cpus still compress video real slow.when is Intel gonna make a bigger L1 cache,anyone know?

 

[Imaginer]

Blame Microsoft for jacking with the programs.

 

[kranky]

Moore's law is about hardware. It still holds true.

The problem is twofold: (1) the complexity of what people want to do increases faster than Moore's Law and (2) software development can't keep pace with the hardware.

 

[Capn]

Well if Moore's law were really a law instead a trend then maybe you could say computers aren't as fast as they should be.

 

[TomC25]

I graduated college in '94

Used an 8088 computer with a 5.25 floppy and no hard drive - monochrome monitor (in the school comp lab)

I think computers are advancing pretty fast

 

[Mday]

i am... freakin' IBM, get those quantum computers to my house already. and you better not be chargin a billion per atom.

 

[NakaNaka]

Think of it this way. Two years ago (a drop more) I got the top of the line computer with 350 mhz. In a few months the P4 1.4 ghz will be out. By the time I'm done with highschool and college (just starting high) we will be well on our way to the P6 5 ghz

You think that is slow?

 

[apoppin]

Yes, I am disappointed in the speed of computers. But then maybe I expect too much.

 

[Lozer]

if they were only as fast as cars.

 

[apoppin]

We KNOW about your car, Lozer. What about your computer?

You can make your computer faster by simply putting it in the trunk of your car and try for its top speed (don't forget the UPS).

 

[Pepsi90919]

How the fsck(1)D) do you measure a computer by it's mph?

 

[Fathom4]

Computers are REAL slow. I've been trying for year to teach one to retrieve a beer from the 'fridge and it just doesn't get it.

Talk about slow.

 

[Stosh]

It's all relative...I use a friggin ComCrap P133 with 32mb of Ram at work with a 15" monitor...At home a Cel@450 with 128mb and a 19" monitor...

You have to consider what your getting for your money.

I bought my first PC about 10-12 years ago...It was a PB 386sx25 w/VGA monitor, 1mb of Ram, 80mb HDD, 5-1/4 and a 3-1/2 floppy drives. No modem, No Cdrom, No SoundCard. It cost over $1700

In 1995, I paid about $2100 for a P75, 16mb of Ram, 15" monitor, 1gb HDD, SB16, and 4x Cdrom. I added a USR 56k ISA about 6 months later for about $175 and a couple of years ago I added a Toshiba 32x for $80, a HP693c printer($300), and a HP 5100c scanner($300)

A little over a year ago, I built a Cel-400, Abit BX6-2.0, 64mb PC100, 8gb HDD, V3-3K, A few salvaged parts (cdrom, floppy, pci64, 17" refurb monitor) I put that baby together for about $700. In the last year I added a few things... SBLive Value($60), FPS2000 Speakers($199), CTX 19" Monitor($380), Teac CD-RW ($190)

Just think about the kind of system you could put together for $2000. It is truly amazing.

No other industry has these kind of advances. Are there really any better refrigerators, or washing machines then there were 10 or 12 years ago.

TV's have advanced quite abit, but nowhere near the speed of computers.

It all comes down to bang for your buck.

In the last 10 or 15 years...I find the most amazing things are:

Speed 4mhz to 1ghz
Video Quality.. 19" monitors for $300
Sound Quality.. High Quality Surround Sound and Enviromental Audio for cheap
Internet and broadband access.. I remember 300 baud modems (Yes, 300 baud, now the minumum is 56000, and thats too slow) Broadband access up to 1.5mbs

Oh, I forgot....What are ya complaining about? Oh..thats right, computers are too slow... UH!, I don't think so. Somebody else said it. They just can't keep up with what we demand of them.

 

[Imannewbie]

I got a Good old 8086 computer that I didn't use for years.
That computer use to be a kick ass one many many many many many years ago......

6 years ago I brought Kickass(that time) 486 DX2 66 MHz with 4 MB ram, a 210 MB IDE hard drive. A Trident Video card with 1 MB VRam!

2 years later I upgrade to a Cyrix 6x86 PR-200 with 64 MB EDO 60ns ECC ram and a 5 Gig EIDE hard drive and a kick ass Millennium.

another 2 years later I upgrade to a K6-2 300 MHz with 128 MB PC-100 Cosair ECC SDram, 18 Gig ATA33 hdd and a Millennium G200 and a SCSI CD-rom

a few months ago I jump to K6-2 500MHz , same ram, and 18 GIG Atlas 10K Hard drive, 2940U2W SCSI Card. I throw my IDE stuff away! My system finally free of lagging IDE stuff!. SBLive Plantium.

and last week I jump to 1 GHz Thunderbird Athlon, 256 MB ECC Mushkin PC133 222 ram, 29160 U160 SCSI and Cheeta 15K 36 Gig Hard drive, A G400 Max + Rainbow runner(cuz I have to do video editing).

and I remember how wonderfully it was to use a kickass(?!?) 300 baud modem! BBS!
Now I'm usind SDSL 1.5M.

Computer tech just goes so fast. and software is getting slow.

 

[apoppin]

Pepsi90919, Computer speed in mph is measured with a speedometer or radar or laser measuring device.

My computer and I went nearly 400 mph on our flight from Hawaii to California).

(My daddy works for the airlines so we got an extra strong tailwind, lucky me).

 

[Fathom4]

LOL @ apoppin

 

[Redwingsguy]

I want a computer with nanosecond response time, that would be fast! buhahahahah