Head to head

Compare any two computers

Pick two machines from 50 years of computing, or pit one against the phone in your pocket. Every number comes from the atlas catalogue.

Asus · 2007

Asus Eee PC 701

A tiny, cheap laptop that started the netbook craze.

CPUIntel Celeron M (underclocked) @ 630 MHz
Memory512 MB
Storage4 GB flash
Launch price$399 ≈ $600 today
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Various (Google ChromeOS) · 2011–today

A school Chromebook

Typical specs shown. Tens of millions of pupils got a Chromebook as their first computer.

CPUIntel Celeron / ARM @ 1.6 GHz
Memory4 GB
Storage16–32 GB flash
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The verdict

The A school Chromebook has 8.0× the memory of the Asus Eee PC 701 and a clock 2.5× faster.

They are 9 years apart. Doubling every two years (Moore's law) would predict about 23×; the memory actually grew slower than that. Across the whole catalogue memory doubled every 1.9 years.

Memory512 MB vs 4 GB
Clock speed630 MHz vs 1.6 GHz

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