huh? autosave, bsod, security the client side hacks of gaming how is any of this a hardware improvement. Software got a lot better.

Of course hardware also got better but software also got a let better at working around the hardwares quirks.

Autosave worked just fine if you remembered to tick the box. BSOD I already mentioned was the only issue.

Client side hacks? Crypto is the bottleneck for all of security. Doing TLS on a 66MHz chip:

     Loading WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM

     Wait a few seconds per each domain handshake to process.

           instagram.com.......................................................................................................................done.

     adsmanager.facebook.com...........................................................................................................done.