Does it seem like very little groundbreaking has happened with computers for the last three years or so?

[dug777]

i pulled out a catalogue with 17' CRT monitors, 400mhz celerons, and 128MB of RAM being marketed as impressive and amazing things :Q

and this wasn't very long ago at all

i guess things have stagnated in the last three years or so, i mean my folks 2ghz nwood p4 (bought early 2002) is still perfectly useful and capable if you aren't gaming, whereas our 400mhz celeron with 128mb of RAM from 1999 really wouldn't cut it even for office and IE today, let alone DVD's.

 

[scorpmatt]

either post pics or stop posting parodies

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: dug777
i pulled out a catalogue with 17' CRT monitors, 400mhz celerons, and 128MB of RAM being marketed as impressive and amazing things :Q

and this wasn't very long ago at all

i guess things have stagnated in the last three years or so, i mean my folks 2ghz nwood p4 (bought early 2002) is still perfectly useful and capable if you aren't gaming, whereas our 400mhz celeron with 128mb of RAM from 1999 really wouldn't cut it even for office and IE today, let alone DVD's.

i gave a friend of mine an old pc with a PIII 450MHz with some 384MB of ram...he could do photo editing and 3D animation on that. granted, it was slow as balls. but he had that computer until about two or three months ago. i gave it to him in june 2002 when i bought my dell dimension.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
either post pics or stop posting parodies

oops.

sorry sharkeeper

 

[Willoughbyva]

Yeah it probably has something to do with the economy. When there was the dot com bubble everyone was investing into technology. It took a couple years for those investments to come about. Now they are more conservative and it takes a while longer. AMD has been on a pretty good pace the past couple years. Video cards also have been clipping along, but kinda slow. Hard drives have also been doing ok. I guess the question is what more do people want out of computers? I guess it will keep on going until everything becomes instentanious. It still takes a while to do some things on computers like encoding video. HoweverI would like to say that computing power hopefully will continue to improve because we can use computers to find out stuff dealing with diseases and other important things.