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Remember when a laptop with a 500MHz PowerPC CPU, ATi RAGE mobility (8MB VRAM), a 40GB ICE HDD and 256Mb RAM was considered state of the art and demanded prices to match? I barely do, I was only 4, but I've an ancient Apple PowerBook from 2000, the Pismo, a quirky predecessor to the Mac Book line. Honestly it made the desktop we had at the time look like a pile of utter shit. 

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No I don't, because I didn't care about specs of technology back than.

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1 minute ago, Minibois said:

No I don't, because I didn't care about specs of technology back than.

I was 1 lol

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My first computer was a CX-64 a.k.a. the portable Commodore 64 with a 3-4 inch screen and a 5' floppy drive. I was behind my generation. But I do remember my second computer was a new Packard Bell with 64MB could have been KB my own mem is a little off :/ and it barely played Doom. I mainly used it for Microsoft Works and my dot matrix printer. Also I am only a year older than you Lord Nicoll [based on when the powerbook came out if you were 4]. That show you how behind I was. But I did get into computers very young. 

 

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Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

 

Yep, pretty much what I imagine it was used for lol.

 

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Just now, Steampunk360 said:

My first computer was a CX-64 a.k.a. the portable Commodore 64 with a 3-4 inch screen and a 5' floppy drive. I was behind my generation. But I do remember my second computer was a new Packard Bell with 64MB ram and it barely played Doom. I mainly used it for Microsoft Works and my dot matrix printer. Also I am only a year older than you Lord Nicoll. That show you how behind I was. But I did get into computers very young. 

Yeah me too, I loved playing around inside them, still do. I (unsurprisingly) had to fix the old powerbook, but it was only a loose connector inside it that stopped it booting. 

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I ran desktop until netbooks was a thing. I bought my first laptop when HP mini was arounr $300 USD. I didnt have internet for most of my life so desktops were the only thing I worried about. I could print out my homework and play morrowind. Now I have a HPDM4 with 12GB ram and my custom skylake desktop with dual monitors. how time flies.

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3 minutes ago, Steampunk360 said:

I ran desktop until netbooks was a thing. I bought my first laptop when HP mini was arounr $300 USD. I didnt have internet for most of my life so desktops were the only thing I worried about. I could print out my homework and play morrowind. Now I have a HPDM4 with 12GB ram and my custom skylake desktop with dual monitors. how time flies.

Yeah, I kinda need both, one for power and one for portable power. My ASUS ROG G750 has a little overkill 20GB with a GTX 860m, while my desktop is a laughable Pentium G840 (I had an i7 3770k, but I literally lost it)

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Nope not really, I did not care about specs back then. I first started to take an interest to computers when the 1st gen i7s where out, so back in late 2008 early 2009 where I also build my first PC.

 

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I got in hardware around 2010 so those times passed me by sadly.

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Who remembers Sandy Bridge i7-2600k on 5ghz air. Got this for family computer close to release date and still has found almost 0 reason to upgrade. GG Intel. 

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43 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

Who remembers Sandy Bridge i7-2600k on 5ghz air. Got this for family computer close to release date and still has found almost 0 reason to upgrade. GG Intel. 

I still use sandy bridge, a pentium G840, lauggably bad. I did buy an i7 3770k but lost it somehow, well I got it from a PC I bought to part out. Its in a room full of crap that things get lost in. 

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47 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

Who remembers Sandy Bridge i7-2600k on 5ghz air. Got this for family computer close to release date and still has found almost 0 reason to upgrade. GG Intel. 

I still use sandy bridge, a pentium G840, lauggably bad. I did buy an i7 3770k but lost it somehow, well I got it from a PC I bought to part out. Its in a room full of crap that things get lost in. 

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1 hour ago, Dackzy said:

Nope not really, I did not care about specs back then. I first started to take an interest to computers when the 1st gen i7s where out, so back in late 2008 early 2009 where I also build my first PC.

 

This is just 100% honest answer no need to get mad or anything, you can just ignore my reply if you want to.

You actually stated a reason and a quality why, so I'm fine with that. I can't say I knew about or cared for specs back then, young kids really can't comprehend specs. But looking back it's amazing how far we've come and how realistically lower end PCs do cost less now which is amazing given inflation.

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