On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 07:59:23AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:54 AM Heather Madrone <[email protected]> wrote: > > Early computing geniuses would grind their teeth in frustration to see > > all the ways we waste the computing power we carry around with us. > > > > Yeah. Isn't it awesome? :)
Kind of, yeah. > Measured purely on clock speed and RAM, my current cellphone (2017 model) > has better specs than my last laptop (2012 model). On a paper, sure. I am not going to quarrel about personal preferences, but for any non trivial use, I am afraid the differences start to manifest. The stuff in a pocket has a few limiting factors, and the power available while on the go makes it a "play only" kind of device. Just my opinion, and I do not have enough time to run any real computation on my smartphone and get the numbers (to prove that despite having bigger clock the performance is not better). Installing the software required for this experiment and touch typing on a touch screen will likely kill all the fun. I would keep that laptop, at least until you can make a swap space on a cell phone, or else. The apps I run on my cell have nasty habit of quitting anytime I run two or more at the same time (and I do not even start the browser because it just is of almost no use, simply put this 700 megs of ram is not enough, not surprising given that showing icons and a background picture eats about 500). With laptop, one has at least a fighting chance - switch to console, add more swap or maybe even more ram etc. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
