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Why don't computers work at the speed of light?
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Pretty simple question. Computers are made using electronics which uses electricity which I presume travels at the speed of light. If all the components are connected at this speed, why does my laptop take loads of time to perform some pretty basic operation sometimes?
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First: Electricity does not travel at the speed of light. Second: Computers work by clock cycle and synchronizing tasks to those clock cycles. This means operations taken even longer then just the time for it to travel down a wire. Third: What you dā¦
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