>a CPU from 2009-2011 would be fine nowadays What went wrong?

>>61031475
Moore's law ded
Maybe now software developers can start optimizing code again instead of hoping hardware improvement covers their ass

>>61031475
>What went wrong?
SSDs and cheap RAM are more to do with 7+ year old CPUs still being useful today. OSes just didn't keep getting CPU intensive. They got more I/O and memory intensive instead.

My Z3735F netbook still runs Windows 10 fine, and it's much shittier than even a Core2quad.

Also, I want to do .. things .. with that secretary.

>>61031475
Physics is the barrier.

And we have to break it.

>>61033222
This is the equivalent of banging your head against a brick wall. Intel has gotten very good at it.

>>61031475
Blame AMD for holding the market back for years

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>>61033265
Must be opposite day.