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This is true for folks from the wild and woolly days of... before 2005 (I think?). But if you think about what's happening today, things have plateaued. Most p
by oblio 1y ago
This is true for folks from the wild and woolly days of... before 2005 (I think?).
But if you think about what's happening today, things have plateaued. Most people since at least 2005 probably have laptops, and generally those hover around 250GB, 500GB, 1TB of storage (with the bigger difference being top of the line/more expensive configurations, than with generational differences). More likely people now identify with 64GB, 128GB, 256GB for smartphones and tablets.
We will soon reach a point of mass market computation where the "mature" times are longer than the early years (1980 - 2005 = 25 years, 2005 - present day = 20 years and counting).
Large leaps, at least in storage, don't really happen (50MB to 1GB is <<extremely>> consequential, 500GB to 1TB is meh.
- scarface_74 1y agoMy high end Dell that I used for my job at a startup that they let me keep after the startup collapsed in 2010 was a Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz with 8GB of RAM, a 1920x1280 display (one the last with that beautiful ratio), a 500GB hard drive, Gig E internet, 892.11n and FireWire. I put Windows 10 on it when it was released and used it for a Plex Server until around 2021. It wasn’t until last year that base MacBook Airs came with more than 8GB RAM and they still come with less storage than that. Not to mention that low end PC laptops still come at a lower resolution than my old Dell did.