We reached the smartphone and computer plateau and it's a good thing

Weird logic. A 2013 iMac is <i>“still reasonably fast for pretty much everything I do with it”</i>, which means it’s not really fast for many things and slow for some things.<p>Also <i>“My point is not that these machines are not generally faster”</i>, which seems to imply it’s fast for more things they do with it (if it isn’t, or only marginally so, they should have made that argument)<p>How is that plateauing? And that ignores new functionality. The M1 Neural engine makes things possible that that 2013 iMac never realistically could.

I feel that way sometimes but we do get better. The iops &amp; core counts are really high, it&#x27;s stunning. Interconnects are far faster &amp; getting wild.<p>Consumers have been living life under usb3 for a decade &amp; it feels interminable but usb4 should really improve life &amp; possibility again... If only there was a lower speed longer range spec for it, for like 5m. Or if we could get some affordable fiberoptic.

I think this is true based on a simple fact: I can reasonably use a computer from 2012 for my needs. In 2012 I probably wouldn&#x27;t say that about a computer from 2002, and in 2002 I probably wouldn&#x27;t say that about a computer from 1992.