Most of these people do their work without writing any JS too, enabling them to cope without 32TB of RAM to manage their 16 tabs of JavaScript each running in its own chromium instance.
Some day, we’ll re-learn some old lessons about the need for efficient utilisation of resources. In the mean time, check out the latest old game re-implemented at a fraction of the frame rate in your browser.
To be fair my laptop at work has 8 cores and 64gb of ram and it's already 3 years old
I'm gonna change it soon not because it's not good anymore, but because some of the hardware has become too slow for the things are necessary nowadays
Mind you it's not my choice only, things are more complex, deadlines aren't longer, quarterly reports are still every 3 months but the things we have to do have become more complex and computationally heavy and need new hardware to keep up
I'm an hobbyist musician, a 300 dollars laptop is good enough and even if I was a pro it would be enough
Truth is that the computational power of a 100 dollars smartphone would be enough
So a new chip by Apple doesn't change that their mobile line is already overpowered for the average use cases and the laptop one is underpowered and overpriced
Some day, we’ll re-learn some old lessons about the need for efficient utilisation of resources. In the mean time, check out the latest old game re-implemented at a fraction of the frame rate in your browser.