> I wish we could get back to a time when a few hundred MHz or less was enough for most things.
Modern display resolutions and color depths alone are responsible for a huge part of why that's no longer the case. And most people aren't interested in giving that up...
Sure I like nice hidpi antialiased, slightly shadowed buttons with translucency, but I kind of like pixel embracing UIs (nice pixel fonts with no AA are quite legible to me). I'm on and off on writing a tiny 4 colors desktop with simple remote abilities..
Modern display resolutions and color depths alone are responsible for a huge part of why that's no longer the case. And most people aren't interested in giving that up...