Better PC's than our parents

[SlipperyPete]

so typically kids drive older cars, have older smartphones and stuff like that but when it comes to pcs i have noticed that kids mostly have nicer ones than their parents. i work at bestbuy and i see this all the time. what about you guys. do you have nicer pc's than your parents?

[Mikius10001]

I would say a huge part of this is what we do with those PC's. Unless your parent is some kind of graphics artist or editor, odds are all they do is browse and maybe use it for media, where as Gaming (being the primary 'young people' thing) requires a better system. I know for a fact that I have a better PC than all of my in-laws and parents PCs as I built them all, haha. I also have a better smartphone, and car....

[givegomezthegun]

Not sure.  Live in a different country than my parents and haven't seen them for 14 years.  Probably though!

[2001jaden]

might be because parents have reduced needs for pcs, internet browsing, ms stuff etc, also they grew up with bad pc's so cant comprehend the extra power

[kingatlas]

Yeah i'm 16 and i have a dell 7559 and a PC with an i5 and gtx 750ti which i don't use a lot, as i'm usually not at home. My dad has a old hp probook form 2005 and my mom has my old phemon 9850 pc which she uses occasionally. I have earnt the money myself through a part time job before you say i'm spoilt and i'm the only one who does anything that pushes the hardware. My folks just use them for browsing and office.

 

 

[SlipperyPete]

12 hours ago, Mikius10001 said:

I would say a huge part of this is what we do with those PC's. Unless your parent is some kind of graphics artist or editor, odds are all they do is browse and maybe use it for media, where as Gaming (being the primary 'young people' thing) requires a better system. I know for a fact that I have a better PC than all of my in-laws and parents PCs as I built them all, haha. I also have a better smartphone, and car....

tbh this was pointed more towards teenagers as we have limited income compared to our parents. thanks for the response though  

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, SlipperyPete said:

so typically kids drive older cars, have older smartphones and stuff like that but when it comes to pcs i have noticed that kids mostly have nicer ones than their parents. i work at bestbuy and i see this all the time. what about you guys. do you have nicer pc's than your parents?

My PC is the only good one in the family. My mum doesn't use a PC, She uses her iPhone. My dad has a Dell Tablet. Not sure which one. My sister has a Laptop from 2009 or 2010. Brother also has a Laptop. 

 

1 hour ago, givegomezthegun said:

Not sure.  Live in a different country than my parents and haven't seen them for 14 years.  Probably though!

My mum always gets angry if I don't call her And she calls me everyday. We live like 2 hours apart. 

 

Well, that reminds, me Haven't called today. I hope she doesn't shout at me.  

[givegomezthegun]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

My mum always gets angry if I don't call her And she calls me everyday. We live like 2 hours apart. 

We didn't part on great terms

[Sir Asvald]

1 minute ago, givegomezthegun said:

We didn't part on great terms

Oh, Sorry. 

 

[xxMega11xx]

I have a better pc than my parents or any other family but i use mine for different purposes so i wold say my dad gets 2nd best behind me

[Moonzy]

computer wise, my parents just need a laptop for facebook

 

they dont need a gtx 970 just to browse facebook at 60fps `-`

 

for smartphones, my parents had better phones than me (2 z2 that i bought for them) until i changed my z1 to a z3 `-`

[SparkyRain]

They use their pc as a tool to watch yt and read news etc, eg they don't need more horsepower. Mom has a dell studio laptop from pre 2000 with ddr2 and dad has no pc at all. He's more the tv guy and uses a tablet to check something online, if even. 

 

I can see that, coming to the 30's in age I already feel too old for this whole "gaming, OP" stuff. My next pc probably will only have i3 and sdd but no gpu. Usage for them has moved hence the care less about specs.

 

They don't even know what an ssd is. Still they got my old one to speed up this dinosaur they have.

 

 

[Auxafly]

nope. i have a macbook ;-;

[kingatlas]

20 minutes ago, SlipperyPete said:

tbh this was pointed more towards teenagers as we have limited income compared to our parents. thanks for the response though  

Yeah this is true, my pc failed on me and my parents would'nt pay for a system with a gpu so i got a job

[SlipperyPete]

12 hours ago, Auxafly said:

nope. i have a macbook ;-;

sorry

[kingatlas]

3 minutes ago, kingatlas said:

Yeah this is true, my pc failed on me and my parents would'nt pay for a system with a gpu so i got a job

I spend my salary on components and then got a laptop 8 months later as  i found it on sale for £500 on clearance reduced from £1k

[Vivilacqua1]

I don't think so. My moms ipad might be a bit better than my gtx 980ti.

[PlayStation 2]

Well, my dad's laptop is better than my daily driver laptop.

[Security]

Until the day I bought my own PC I was using my parent's PC... But since then yes my PC has always been (allot) better because what I used it for demanded that where as neither parents used the machine for anything demanding.

 

Even when my dad started gaming it didn't need really good hardware because the game wasn't that demanding (he played StarCraft 2).

Stating all this, the period between 2009 and 2011 I ran a machine with a Q6000, 4GB RAM and a 8800GT as my primary machine due to the faster machine breaking down and me just not really caring as it would do the job well enough most of the time... So it is debatable if I "needed" a beast machine myself most of the time.

[Praesi]

My Father use 3 Mac´s each around 5k for Work. His normal PC for Officestuff is a crappy one. My Mom just use a lowend Laptop. Nothing spezial.

[toms94z71]

Unless my kids pay for it themselves, or one of the granparents do, My wife and I wll have the nice pc. Now if they buy all the stuff themselves to build a nice one, i will be more then happy to help them build it, other then that they will mostly get hand me downs from mine system or my wifes system as we upgrade to newer stuff.

[No]

well kids often use their pc's for gaming more often while the parents need theirs for work

gaming pc> work pc

[cadabri]

Way nicer. That is because they need a simple business pc for their work and to watch youtube and stuff on it, and I need mine for photo and video editing and gaming.

[Drixen]

It's a generational thing, to be simply put. Rather than making it into something more complex, put it as: our parents come from a generation where the automobile industry was king, and was making HUGE milestone leaps ahead from a short time. The thing with our generation (I am 25), we are reverse... cars are becoming more boring and universally "the same", where that industry has become stagnant in terms of mind-blowing tech. Sure, Tesla, Audi and others are making commonly already known improvements; they're actually just refining what's ALREADY known. However, the personal computer industry is making GINORMOUS leaps into sectors we had no idea we'd end up in. Food for thought.

[xgn]

I do yea. I told them i can build a real pc for them. Their not interested.