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I remember when I had a ~100mhz Cyrix 4/586 clone that I used to do desktop publishing (Photoshop, Quark, etc) in the mid-late 1990s. Plenty fast for that, but
by rograndom 11y ago
I remember when I had a ~100mhz Cyrix 4/586 clone that I used to do desktop publishing (Photoshop, Quark, etc) in the mid-late 1990s. Plenty fast for that, but it could on play 128kbps MP3s if nothing else was running. I would have a tape deck hooked up to to the audio out so I could make cassette tapes for my car from MP3s.
That got replaced with a actual 166mhz Pentium MMX. That one had no problem playing MP3s along with the regular work. Same with the next machine that was a Celeron overclocked to 400mhz.
I could only imagine how I would waste dual 500mhz processors at that time!
- jlgaddis 11y agoThat last sentence brought back some memories for me, like when the ABIT BP6 motherboard came out (it was the first of its kind). I just HAD to have one, so I got one and stuck a pair of 500 MHz Celerons in it. That thing was sooooo faaaast! It was so much more powerful than my previous machines (a 486SX/25 w/ 4 MB of RAM and then a P100 w/ 32 MB of RAM)! I remember putting it together and wondering "how am I ever going to use this machine at anything near its full potential?" This is a great reminder (to me) that, even though it doesn't seem like it sometimes, technology really does change so damn fast.
- EdSharkey 11y agoI had one too, and it WAS fast! I built it from parts I got at the Oakland Computer Show. It was my beloved "duallie". :)
- ChrisClark 11y agoI remember the first MP3 player I downloaded had to spend some time buffering before it started playing the song. It must have been on my old 386.