Has there ever been a time, going back to the 70s with original PCs, where new software didn't necessitate a new computer?
Things are also getting better now that Intel is dying. I mean, the new Apple silicon chips are astoundingly fast and energy efficient, an M1 from 5 years ago is still going strong and probably won't truly need replacing for another 2. Similar for Ryzen chips from 5 years ago!
Things have changed a lot in 20 years. In 2005 we didn't consume all of our video / audio media online. We didn't have social media, just blogs and RSS readers. YouTube had just been released. TikTok, Facebook and Twitter didn't exist. Hypermedia today is very rich and necessitates a lot of resources. But at the same time, most work the past 10 years has been on native apps (on mobile particularly but also PCs), not web sites. Most people don't use the web browser as much.
Things are also getting better now that Intel is dying. I mean, the new Apple silicon chips are astoundingly fast and energy efficient, an M1 from 5 years ago is still going strong and probably won't truly need replacing for another 2. Similar for Ryzen chips from 5 years ago!
Things have changed a lot in 20 years. In 2005 we didn't consume all of our video / audio media online. We didn't have social media, just blogs and RSS readers. YouTube had just been released. TikTok, Facebook and Twitter didn't exist. Hypermedia today is very rich and necessitates a lot of resources. But at the same time, most work the past 10 years has been on native apps (on mobile particularly but also PCs), not web sites. Most people don't use the web browser as much.