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Remembering : In the 90s, when it came out, I couldn't run Quake 1 on my desktop PC as it required 6 MB of RAM, and I had only 4 MB installed.
by habibur 4y ago
Remembering : In the 90s, when it came out, I couldn't run Quake 1 on my desktop PC as it required 6 MB of RAM, and I had only 4 MB installed.
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- hparadiz 4y agoWhat year was that? I got a Pentium 1 166mhz with 16MB of ram in 1995. Cost my parents $3000. Later we upgraded the RAM and for a while I was running a weird 80MB of RAM configuration (16 + 64).
- Sharlin 4y agoAny Pentium would have been considered high end when Quake came out. Most people were still running 486s, and it caused some consternation that Quake practically required a Pentium to run smoothly (as the renderer’s inner loop was written to exploit the P5’s superscalar architecture).
- forgotusername6 4y agoA friend had a DIY water-cooling system with a bucket and some ice to play quake on an over clocked 486
- brailsafe 4y ago$3000 in 95 was a hell of a lot of money. I don't think my parents ever had that much in savings. $3k now is a hell of a lot of money, my parents still don't have that much in savings and I'd really hold out for a stellar upgrade in that range.
- theplumber 4y ago>> $3k now is a hell of a lot of money Where do you live? A smartphone is $1000 or more.
- detaro 4y agoIn the same way that "a car" is $90k or more. (And yes, for plenty people a smartphone is an expensive, major purchase)
- brailsafe 4y agoAbsolutely. fwiw, I also would have a very hard time even rationalizing a $20k CAD car purchase.
- badpun 4y agoYou can get a new iPhone for around $400. Other brands can be much cheaper.
- implements 4y agoYou can get a secondhand iPhone 7 for much less, and I’d (genuinely) wonder if the newness, missing features (or difference in their quality) are really worth the extra $850?
- aspyct 4y agoSecurity updates, you know... Apparently it's over this fall, so can't save sensitive data on that. Though I agree: I can't think of someone who _needs_ a $1000 smartphone.
- taneq 4y agoHaving just upgraded from a 6s to an 11, I’d say… meh? The 11 is nice, I guess, but apart from having a new battery and being slightly more responsive (and on the downside, no fingerprint scanner and no headphone jack) it’s functionally pretty equivalent.
- brailsafe 4y agoI've never owned an iPhone, but this is basically the framework I operate within when thinking about most purchases, but especially phones. If the question of what it offers me is tenuous at best, I don't have enough extra money to burn that I'm going to spend anything close to that on upgrading, and usually never upgrade, instead just replacing one that was either stolen or broken in a horizontal purchase within a budget of around $500
- dr_soong 4y agoAh yes, had it running on my Pentium 60 MHz, 16MB RAM in '95. Didn't run on highest specs, but performance was good enough in SVGA. 60MHz single core and having a floating point unit in your CPU was considered acceleration.