Why do computers become slow after a while, even after factory reset or hard disk formatting?
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Web sites grow by the day, basically. The resources needed to render Facebook in 2020 is likely an order of magnitude greater than in 2010.
You also have things like video formats that offer better compression, but in return require more cpu power and/or memory.
Perhaps a really neat optimization trick in some software turned out to cause security holes, so the program was updated to be safer, but slower.
These are a small selection of things that cause computers to run slower even if they do exactly as many calculations now as they did a decade ago. There’s just so much more stuff that they need to do now that they can get overwhelmed.
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