Rekall IncorporatedConsumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.
MultiplexerThose were awazing times.
Within 5 years I basically went from a 16 MHZ CPU to a 1,4 GHz CPU.
And going from minimal graphics card to a 3D-accelerated one was equally mind-boggling.
Progress after that era essentially felt like a technological standstill.
bdonvrDefinitely. The prices were much higher (accounting for inflation) though, and to make it worse with everything moving so fast it all was obsolete so much quicker.
Today you can ride a high end gaming PC 6-8 years. Imagine taking a Win98/EarlyXP machine to Windows 7. Nah.
But we lost the excitement with the longevity.
with everything moving so fast it all was obsolete so much quicker.
*looking confused in Linux user since 1998* ;-)
My first real PC from 1996 was a Pentium 100 which admittedly wasn’t cheap (~1800€ today including inflation), but had an easy and low-price upgrade path to a K6-2 400 with decent amount of RAM which was later being used by my father until 2010.
My dad did mostly some word processing and web browsing on his favorite bunch of sites.
Processing power was less a problem in the end than the very limited memory (192 MB), even with the super-small-footprint Linux Distro.
You have to remember, 2008/2009 also was the time of the EEE-PCs, that weren’t that much more powerful compute-wise, but already had at least 1GB of memory…
Processing power was less a problem in the end than the very limited memory (192 MB), even with the super-small-footprint Linux Distro.
You have to remember, 2008/2009 also was the time of the EEE-PCs, that weren’t that much more powerful compute-wise, but already had at least 1GB of memory…