Timeline for Do computers slow down as they age?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 28, 2012 at 14:19 | comment | added | Dan Ray | On any other (non Apple-centric) site, the correct quote would be "Intel giveth, and Microsoft taketh away". In our case, of course, both companies are Apple.... | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 13:31 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Several edits were suggested to the less-compressed / more-compressed - attempt to incorporate that better
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| Mar 28, 2012 at 13:12 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | One quibble. Media generally isn't stored in less compressed formats. The only exception I can think of is lossless audio; but that's not mainstream. The problem is actually the opposite, more processing intensive compression methods are used to get better quality for a given file size. For a given quality level H.264 files are about half the size of the previous standard but require significantly more work to decode. Newish systems have dedicated decode hardware to do this easily; older ones need to brute for it on the CPU. | |
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| Mar 28, 2012 at 9:31 | comment | added | stuffe | wayback.org is your friend :) That, or Geocities! | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 7:34 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | Which websites are the same as in 2004? | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 5:25 | comment | added | Billy ONeal | I have had drives slow down with age; one drive ran for many months but was close to failing; it kept slowing down considerably to perform re-reads of everything, and succeeded often enough that the machine appeared to be in working order. Replacing the drive fixed the issue. (Though admittedly I would call that a bad drive) | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 4:10 | vote | accept | Daniel♦ | ||
| Mar 28, 2012 at 0:53 | history | answered | Nathan Greenstein | CC BY-SA 3.0 |