I am hooked on this channel. It's interesting watching his method
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.” ― Steve Jobs
Photo: Steve Wozniak's Apple I computer (1976)
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I met Steve Wozniak got a picture of me and him .. amazing person..
I'm just waiting for those capacitors to burst and piddle all over the place.
Silly joke aide, Steve Wozniak and Jay Miner are two I look up to in awe, that's for sure!
All that computational power, three or four levels of on-die cache depending on model (or more, conceptually), integrated random access memory instead of modular and easily-upgradable designs, microcode firmware to allow software-based patching since it's harder to rewire 8 billion transistors inside a 16-core microprocessor... never mind overclocking, which also involves the happy fun-time question of "is the cost of the increased electricity, heat output, and potential lifespan degradation worth a 25% faster clocked CPU speed, which does not translate into 25% rendering time acceleration" for which the answer isn't a straight yes or no...
Now riddle me this: The day a microchip can do all the functionality of four Ryzen Threadripper 7995WX chips with quad- nVidia 5090, 2048TB of DDR5 RAM or whatever will be out by then, with embedded SSD because who wants modular anything anymore, and can also multitask as a 12x12" pancake skillet (mostly for the IHS required, ha!), inquiring minds want to know! Well, maybe keep the SSD separate as even with wear-leveling and TRIM, it'll wear out by five~ten years of regular use and with luck all the other components of that SoaC would remain viable for several years' worth of use longer... probably all within fifteen years once they get fabrication technology so minuscule ( < 0.5nm, industry is already at 2nm), assuming silicon is still used and not some other substrate (Gallium nitride appears to be promising, but it'll still be a while...) What version of Windows will be running it, or will it be some FreeBSD or Linux clone OS? Now look at if BeOS were to be made for such a theoretical system and drool...
We're getting there...... Almost to the point where a high powered laptop could only have a 4 or 5 chips on the mainboard including memory and everyone will call that a win. In some ways it would streamline production of these devices but not the cost to purchase, maybe the reliability might rise a slight bit because also by then you could offer options on such a board like more external storage slots. less chance of user damage from trying to "fix" stuff.
Someone made a Frankenpc out of a mini pc and external gpu dock
