It’s a stupid question but I always wondered if that was the case. Because even if you fully reinstall an old laptop with the original system after a crash, it feels much slower than when you took it out of the box.

Is it some kind of mental Moore’s law, where our brains become more demanding with each day passing? Or are computers really getting slower and less effective with time?

Something made of electricity and non-moving parts (mostly) getting old sounds a bit weird. That’s why the question came up.

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