1o years in tech are a huge amount of time. Things change in a few weeks, can you imagine the changes that can happen in 10 years? That’s why a user over at Ars Technica’s forums tried to compare the old iMac (2000) to the current iPhone.
As you can guess, it’s a strange feeling. Take a look at the specs after the break.
2000
iMac
Operating System – Mac OS 9.0.4
Processor – 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory
Graphics – ATI Rage 128 Pro, 8MB of memory (8 million triangles)
Screen – 786K pixels
Data Transfer Speeds – 1.3-12.5 MB/s (DVD-ROM-1/100 Ethernet)
Storage – 30GB Hard Drive
Dimensions – 15.0 x 15.0 x 17.1 inches
Weight – 34.7 pounds
2010
iPhone 4
Operating System – iOS 4.0
Processor – 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB Memory
Graphics – PowerVR SGX 535, uses system memory (28 million triangles)
Screen – 614K pixels
Data Transfer Speeds – .04-20MB/s (3G-WiFi)
Storage – 32GB Flash Drive
Dimensions – 4.5 x 2.31 x .31 inches
Weight – 4.8 ounces
The author of the post also asks: what will the device be like in 2020? We don’t know, but we’ll be here 10 years from now looking back at this post. Bookmark it, please.
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That's what moran said 2 months ago:
That’s a quantum leap right there, though it’s somewhat misleading, since most CPUs back then were at least 1GHZ.
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That's what Adam K said 2 months ago:
Yeah to be fair, Macs in those days were woefully underpowered compared to almost every other PC competitor (there was a bunch of FUD about Mac clock cycles being more worthwhile or something, but it didn’t really mean anything). Still striking though.
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That's what j said 2 months ago:
I predict that within one-hundred years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will be able to afford one
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