I'm not much of a tech person and I have no idea if my observations are worth anything, but from where I'm sitting it seems computer technology isn't advancing anywhere near as quickly as it was from the 80s to the early 2010s.
The original Moore's law is dead and has been for a very long time, but the less specific trend of rapidly increasing computational power doesn't seem to hold much water anymore either. The laptop I have now doesn't feel like much of an improvement on the laptop I had four years ago at a similar price point. And the laptop I had six years ago is really only marginally worse.
So for those in the know on the relevant industry, how are things looking in general? What is the expected roadmap for the next 10 to 20 years? Will we ever get to the point where a cheap notebook is capable of running today's most demanding games at the highest settings, 144fps, and 4k resolution? Sort of like how today's notebooks can run the most intensive games of the 90s/early 2000s.
Windows eats up RAM lately, 16 GB is considered the minimum for playing games or even for office work, 100 web browser tabs use a ton of it.
Adding that other RAM stick to your PC doubled the memory throughput by making it dual-channel. AMD cpu/gpu combo processors greatly benefit from having faster RAM. It might be the same for Intel.
A few years back I was looking at buying a used AMD laptop with built-in graphics, so I could play games that wouldn't work as well on an Intel GPU. For some fucking reason, laptop makers used to sell AMD laptops that had a limitation that prevented the GPU performance boost of dual-channel RAM by having some bottleneck in the motherboard because it was slightly cheaper.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure as well the ram upgrade massively boosted that little iGPU. For the first time ever I was able to play KSP at above 30fps with clouds and atmospheric scattering enabled. The difference was like night and day. Had I known dual channel was this helpful to iGPUs, I'd have gotten more ram for every single laptop I've ever had.