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Right, and that was in 90s dollars! It's pretty astounding what you get for $2k 2023 dollars now, which is roughly $1k in 1998 dollars. Plus that $2k 2023 mac
by steveBK123 3y ago
Right, and that was in 90s dollars!
It's pretty astounding what you get for $2k 2023 dollars now, which is roughly $1k in 1998 dollars.
Plus that $2k 2023 machine will be good enough for probably 5 years even for a pretty serious professional. Versus a $3k 1998 machine that even for a young hobbyist was basically decrepit in under 3 years.
So your modern day computing run rate is like $400 2023 dollars per year, versus late 90s being easily the equivalent of $2k 2023 dollars per year.
- ghaff 3y agoOnce GUIs became the norm, that shiny new PC you bought/built was basically not fast enough on Day 1. Whereas I still use my 2015 iMac and MacBook and they're really not even that bad for photo and video editing. I did buy an M1 Pro MacBook for multimedia but I'll be the first to admit it was sort of a luxury purchase. (And partly for reasons that may not really play out.) My first dual floppy PC clone (who could afford a hard disk or genuine IBM?) in 1982 was somewhere in the low 4 digits all-in which was probably close to 10% of my gross salary as an engineer at the time. But, yeah, you can get a very well equipped Mac for about $3K these days. (Which is obviously not the economy PC option.) Even if you were starting from scratch you'd probably have to really work to get it up to $5K with external monitor, external hard drives, peripherals, printer, etc.