> no more loud fans running at full whack, no more spinning rust slowing things down, no more expensive briefcase sized laptops with 40min battery life, operati

> no more loud fans running at full whack, no more spinning rust slowing things down, no more expensive briefcase sized laptops with 40min battery life, operating systems where everything just works out of the box without fumbling over which floppy has the right driver that won't randomly crash the OS, fast internet and easy piracy, better malware protection and security out of the box, no more collecting stacks of optical media (ok, that was pretty fun), etc. TBH i grew up with IBM PC compatibles (my "upgrade history" was PC XT clone, PC AT clone, AMD 386, Pentium MMX, Pentium 2, Athlon64 and then modern stuff) and i never remember thinking any of that being much of an issue - and i knew enough about PCs to have built my own since pretty much the first one (the PC XT clone i used was a bunch of randomly thrown components together) and programmed them since the beginning too. Like sure, they most likely were things some people fussed about, but i never remember even thinking about these. The only thing i always remember being an issue was floppy disks being horribly unreliable.