Can I complain about how fast PCs are today? I want to upgrade, but 0 reason to:

[Red Squirrel]

Actually yeah just a monitor upgrade can make a big difference. I've actually been thinking of going from my triple monitor setup to a single larger 4k monitor.

 

[ControlD]

^^
I've been itching to make a monitor upgrade as well. I bought a 24" IPS monitor maybe three years ago and I just have never really been that happy with it. If I had some use for my existing monitor I would upgrade but I hate having stuff just laying around.

 

[sunzt]

I stopped buying towers for myself since 2006. I only by laptops and tablets now.

Laptops are still worth upgrading every 5 years or so because they get more efficient and get more features. I still limited in many games from the 2000's in terms of graphics performance and loading times, and i don't want to buy a 8lb+ monster laptop in order to get it.

However, I kinda miss the building so i've taken on home automation stuff now. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[ControlD]

I still upgrade my tower every 2-3 years or so. It isn't so much that I need to upgrade, but I still find the whole research, shopping and building part to be fun. I usually rotate the older equipment into a system for friends or family.

 

[Excelsior]

This definitely applies to me. I built a Q6700 desktop back in 2007/08 when I worked at Office Depot, got the motherboard and CPU through Intel Retail Edge. All I've done since building it is max out the ram (8GB) add an SSD, and I still run the 8800GT I bought for it years ago. I have no reason other than gaming to upgrade this machine. It runs so well on Windows 10. Even my 2009 Macbook Pro is a-ok with two SSDs, 8GB ram, and 10.11.

 

[Sonikku]

Man, back in the days (10-15 or even 6-7 yrs ago), having a slower PC meant it directly impacted your quality of life in user experience.

Browsers would take a longer time to load...
Just navigating OS windows would be slow on a crap machine...
Whether you were a gamer, a power user, or a soccer mom, having a fast machine mattered.

Remember the hard drive crunch/scratch noise? I don't miss that at all.

Nowadays everything is so fast. I built my mom a $400 budget machine with i3 & 128gig SSD few years ago. That thing still zooms to desktop from a cold start under 10 seconds. Also everything is so streamlined - about 90% of what she does is via a browser (Chrome)- email, news, videos, music, social media, etc.

I myself am still rocking a 4 year old i3-2120, 8 gigs RAM & HD6870. I keep wanting to upgrade, but I realize there's really no point to... spend another $500-600++ for what- so my LR can load pictures bit faster when doing post processing?

Not worth it.

I barely game AAA titles anymore. There are so many rogue-like games that are super fun.

I kind of miss spending money on desktop components + ooh/aahing at the new GPU...

Today having a $400 or a $1200 machine makes very little difference to most people that just use Chrome for most things.

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Damn new computers!! They've just all gotten too damn golly fast! Hell, back in MY day we had to wait a whole minute just to get from cold boot to the desktop, and even then Windows STILL took time loading everything!!

 

[Zeze]

Damn new computers!! They've just all gotten too damn golly fast! Hell, back in MY day we had to wait a whole minute just to get from cold boot to the desktop, and even then Windows STILL took time loading everything!!

And don't get us started on pr0n on dial-up! We waited overnight for DLing anything over 10-15 mins!! And we had no idea what we were downloading until we opened 'em!

 

[TheELF]

Paradise! We would have killed for dial-up,all we got from powering on a PC in OUR time was a cursor... and we had to use BASIC commands to do anything.