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Post by jojo on May 4, 2012 10:50:43 GMT
OK, this doesn't have any real constructive purpose. But it's certainly interesting to me. This is a scan of a newspaper cutting, advertising my second laptop in 1997.  Check out those amazing stats. This was before it was cool to say cool.  |
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Post by elvisuk on May 5, 2012 9:31:11 GMT
Well thats a cool post just look at the specks on that come pared to todays laptop 64mb with 4 gig h/d and the rest in 97 was it a good buy Jojo as i have been to bed since then 
Good post just to remember how bad laptops wear  )
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Post by mikkh on May 6, 2012 11:28:12 GMT
That was roughly the same time I paid £600 for a Celeron 400- second hand! Luckily I didn't hang on to it for too long and replaced it with a an AMD 500 within 6 months and ended up better off both financially and PC wise.
Even back then 64 MB was a bit on the low side for Win 98, especially for laptops which always come jam packed full of bloatware. It's equivalent in today's market would cost £299 and some of todays mobile phones are far more powerful
The good old days eh
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Post by mikkh on May 6, 2012 11:36:28 GMT
I also recall a few years before that an excited neighbour wanting me to check out out his new PC - an IBM 50 with 16 MB RAM. I seem to remember I had an AMD 133 at the time and paid a small fortune to fit it with 32 MB of RAM
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Post by jojo on May 7, 2012 13:58:45 GMT
As I recall, I went around asking a number of people what sort of specs I should look out for. All I got was either, to buy what they had, or brush offs, which meant they didn't know. When I did buy it, so many said if I'd only gone to them, done this, waited a while longer. I managed to use that unit for a number of years, 2003 I think, before replacing it. Until it eventually did break, a problem with the supply to the HD I think, I had no problems with it at all. And best of all, surfing the net, I found a little site called CiT! Does it get any better? Seriously though, I did learn that you sometimes just need to jump in. My instincts said it was a good unit and it did a great job. The bundled software I never used. I did use Wordpad until I got Open. There wasn't any extra bloatware since I was supplied with the original M$ Windows 98 disc. I also managed, eventually, to get rid of a lot of the crap on that, I think largely from advice I got on CiT. Some guy called mikkh or something like that. Also started playing an online game for the first time. Spiral Matrix as I recall. Toward the end if its life, stuff became more heavy on graphics so I had to be more careful or the computer would freeze up. Oh boy ;D I really need to get a life!  |
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Post by elvisuk on May 7, 2012 14:37:15 GMT
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