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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 20631797" data-attributes="member: 79514">A single Apple iPhone 5 has 2.7 times the processing power than the 1985 Cray-2 supercomputer.<img src="http://i.imgur.com/XCiGXrc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1985 contains half of the processing power as the computer that brought Apollo to the moon!<img src="http://i.imgur.com/O0KRHUO.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />40 years ago, most people wouldn't believe that we would soon have access to limitless information from the palm of your hand. See the comparison of a Samsung Galaxy S6 and a Playstation 2 below.<img src="http://i.imgur.com/gBHj3a3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The question remains, how far has computing power come over the last 60 years? Current supercomputers exceed commercially available products; however, it's still fun to compare what it would take to rival the titans (and Tianhes) of the industry. See the comparison of a Tianhe-2 Supercomputer and a Playstation 4 below.<img src="http://i.imgur.com/voT2Pc5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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