I think what people are saying is not that my computer is fast and getting a faster one wouldn’t improve their experience that much.
I have an old work laptop (6years) and a much newer Linux home laptop that is faster. I notice and it’s nice to have the speed but Im not suffering with my old machine.
We’re a long way from watching a spreadsheet recalculate (AppleWorks on the Apple 2 Im thinking of you)..
Sure for gaming/ music or video work or high end development tasks it makes a difference. It probably matters more than people think but they aren’t suffering with older hardware.
Some development platforms are looking to induce upgrades however (electron apps for example)
That's precisely my point. Having low requirements for hardware is a poor basis upon which to judge the advancement of hardware. If you don't notice a difference between a 6th gen and 11th(!) gen proc and associated platform (for which we have comparative benchmarks, btw), your demands of the hardware have just remained too low for the improvements to register. For a basic home user or low-intensity office user, an XPS 9310 with 32GB of RAM would be a waste today. For people that can use it, it's a godsend compared to a Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake laptop.
I have an old work laptop (6years) and a much newer Linux home laptop that is faster. I notice and it’s nice to have the speed but Im not suffering with my old machine.
We’re a long way from watching a spreadsheet recalculate (AppleWorks on the Apple 2 Im thinking of you)..
Sure for gaming/ music or video work or high end development tasks it makes a difference. It probably matters more than people think but they aren’t suffering with older hardware.
Some development platforms are looking to induce upgrades however (electron apps for example)