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.
From what i have seen there was little almost null progres from around 2010 to 2018. Early multicore processors were really good and you could overclock them more easily because more nanometers mean the electronuc erosion is less meaningful. Then around 2019 processors improved greatly the high end went from 4 and a half ghz(where they have been for over a decade to 6ghz) in 4 years. And you can now buy a rysen 5600g wich is amazing for relativley cheap.
Notebook procesors seem to be deliberatley shity for some reason..
Videocards are expensive due to some elongated muskrat. So if it werent for that you coud get a cheap desktop runing most games rigth now.
The problem is that nobody knows how to program stuff now a days. Back then you had to learn how to make a summ in an ingenious way in order to get the best from your floating points. Now windows uses gigs upn gis of ram. Everything else is built on layers upon layers of propietaty software and is way more ineficient than it should.