Deadjasper
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This computer is never obsolete.
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Education has been under the Apple spell for as long as I can remember. They are also heavily entrenched in the graphic design and content creation space with people in those professions being almost cult-like in their devotion to Apple products.Apple's slogan of "Blow minds, not budgets" from the late 90's still comes to mind...
I wasn't impressed at all with the Power PC-based Macs of the time. They were horribly overpriced, and compared to a similarly priced Pentium / Pentium II or even AMD PC, ran very slowly.
Nevertheless, there were quite a few professors in my department who were still loyal to Apple since the days of the Centris and Quadra, back when they used the Motorola 68K series of CPU's, and actually had a claim to being a premium computer.
and down the road when we need a dedicated 220v 20A+ line for the video cards dedicated power supply, we will look back at this and laugh harder lol.In retrospect, the amount of complaining people made about Prescott Pentium 4's and Pentium D's using too much power is kinda laughable today considering a modern i7 has almost twice the TDP as those old chips.
"Biggest computer lie ever told"
Wasn't it Al Gore that set there would never be a need for a computer to be in everyone's home?
Pretty sure after Al Gore invented the internet he would have wanted everyone to have a computer."Biggest computer lie ever told"
Wasn't it Al Gore that set there would never be a need for a computer to be in everyone's home?
Either Al gore or Bill Gates, can't remember which.
"Biggest computer lie ever told"
Wasn't it Al Gore that set there would never be a need for a computer to be in everyone's home?
Ah, yea. I think that's the line I remember reading about.That was probably from DEC's founder, Ken Olsen, who had said "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
That quote may have been taken badly out of context, though, since he was apparently referring to computers that would actually control the home.
are you saying the rumors that Gates ever said that is one of the big lie (like other famous false historical quote a la Let them eat cake) ever told or that he did say it and it was a big lie ?"Nobody will ever need more than 640k of ram"
Theoretically you could put a modern computer inside the case.
I repaired them for a living. (Along with everything else out there at the time.) So yeah, they spark nostalgia in me but not in a good way.I’m all for the retro builds and such but this case does t exactly spark nostalgia does it?
I repaired them for a living. (Along with everything else out there at the time.) So yeah, they spark nostalgia in me but not in a good way.
Aka the Windows Phone protection.macs had such a small footprint
IEC 80000-13, which standardized the "KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB" usage for storage wasn't published until 2008, and it is wrong. I don't care if a "standards" commission makes it so, or incompetent people don't understand what they're buying. A gigabyte has, and always shall be, 1024³ bytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).If we go with the :
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It could remove some.
There some play for word about preferring the bigger number, even if it will knowingly mislead most people, a good example being hard drive size.
When people see 120GB hard drive, they assume they buy a 120 Gigabytes harddrive, they are confused and surprised to discover they bought a 120 gibibytes (or a 111.6 GB) a term virtually never use outside than on hard drive box.
I remember desktop PCs with these types of advertisements were sold in the mid to late-90s, and remember seeing them in tech stores all over the place at the time.I remember selling them to unedumacated dweebs & script kiddies in the mid-80's....the same crowd who were also considering Gatorway's and Presarios....ah, those were the days....
I think ZIP drives were more obsoleted by the use of USB flash drives circa 2004.ZIP drives will be the next storage media; Floppy killer, but beaten by CD-Rs.
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IIRC, those crap boxers were obsolete before they even hit store shelves, but they were dirt cheap, so there's that !
I remember selling them to unedumacated dweebs & script kiddies in the mid-80's....the same crowd who were also considering Gatorway's and Presarios....ah, those were the days....
And an overclockers dreamAMD marketing quote " Fury X is a 4K killer".
Heh. Just like PC Chips motherboards... Or ECS. Neither of those names bring back warm and fuzzies, either.I repaired them for a living. (Along with everything else out there at the time.) So yeah, they spark nostalgia in me but not in a good way.
I've had good and bad experiences with just about every brand. I say that because there are some brands I never had a positive experience with. Or in some cases there are specific models I never had good experiences with. I never had good experiences with Azza boards or EPoX's. iWill was hit and miss. Strangely, I mostly had good luck with QDI. ECS was one I had bad experiences with but I had far worse luck with DFI LanParty nForce 4 motherboard series and FIC's VA 503+ remains the worst motherboard of all time.Heh. Just like PC Chips motherboards... Or ECS. Neither of those names bring back warm and fuzzies, either.