Yeah I kind of wonder why people want more CPU power so badly on a tablet.

By the end of the 1990s, microprocessor performance had outstripped software demand for that CPU power.

More recently, with the necessary CPU power available, it is possible to perform the same synthesis in software.

However, the amount of CPU power needed to decrypt and encrypt data on the fly was through the roof.

Would normal people ever need that kind of CPU power?

Not enough CPU power to do proper timeshifting, combined with the fact that it didn't save us any money.

Manipulating the stream any further would require a far more significant level of CPU power available in the 5th generation.

This allowed users to choose between energy efficiency and greater CPU power.

This hurts the advanced user the most since he is more likely to stress the limits of the CPU power available to him.

CPU power isn't like Amazon S3 storage - it's a lot more expensive.