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It was also such a fast-moving era that your 486 would get crushed in a couple years by the arrival of Pentiums. I still regularly use a 2012 laptop, but if yo
by klodolph 6y ago
It was also such a fast-moving era that your 486 would get crushed in a couple years by the arrival of Pentiums.
I still regularly use a 2012 laptop, but if you were using a 9-year-old PC back in 1991, it would be a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088, or something like a Commodore 64.
- vidanay 6y agoYeah for sure. My next one after this was a Dual CPU Pentium Pro.
- dehrmann 6y agoTo quote Weird Al, My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks/But it was obsolete before I opened the box/You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique/ Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great/If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight. These days, my parent's 8-year-old computer with 8GB+ of memory, a high-end (for the time) CPU, and an SSD is good enough for everything they do.
- bombcar 6y agoI think that's the thing that is most amazing to me - once we got to the SSD era there really haven't been amazing "performance leaps" like we used to have in the 90s-early 2000s. I remember selling my gaming computer at college every 3-6 months and building the new hotness and it being NOTICEABLY better each time.
- wistlo 6y agoIn the 10 years between 2011 and 2021, the only computing development to make my jaw drop was the SSD (well, maybe LCD multi monitors, too). I just upgraded a 2009 vintage AMD desktop that was headed for recycling with an SSD, and it's once again useful. Smartphones came further, obviously, starting from nothing in 2006m but I see 2014-2015 as the start of a plateau. When we started seeing glass-backed cases and folding screens, I knew we'd reached the land of diminshing returns.