> It is not just nostalgia. I recently bought a dual core Pentium 2.2Ghz motherboard[...] Yeah, the Core Duo age is probably outside my limit for "retro". At l

> It is not just nostalgia. I recently bought a dual core Pentium 2.2Ghz motherboard[...] Yeah, the Core Duo age is probably outside my limit for "retro". At least for now, although this is also at the point where a) you can still run most contemporary stuff outside of high-res video or games without issues, b) accessory and display tech is also mostly in line (flat screens, SATA etc.) and c) few people would use this as vehicles to run old _software_. A good example would be the legion of people still using older Thinkpads. They rarely do this out of retro-enthusiasm.