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Marco Arment’s great post about OS upgrades

marco:

…what common tasks in 2009 can’t be accomplished by a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 PC with Windows XP SP2 and a cable internet connection — the average technology of 2004? Not much that regular people actually do…

What struck me about this particular part of the (well-reasoned and almost painfully obvious once you think about it) post by Marco Arment (who happens to be the lead dev for Tumblr) is that he’s listed the exact specification of the PCs that I used to run at my previous job. We only moved onto faster hardware because the slower stuff wasn’t available any more, and for everyone outside of IT, there was simply no point whatsoever in moving beyond a 2.8GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM, and even 1GB was basically future-proofing overkill because it was so cheap.