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Funny how technology changes

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I am a PC person. As a gamer I never really fell for consoles, concepts were and are too gamepad dependant so genres were blending or too action-paced when compared to purely computer games. RPG on computers were always more about tactics and more dialogue-driven with more options how to level your characters. Adventure games were about puzzles and dialogues and not about jumping and pushing crates and strategy games and simulators were completely different category. Not to mention that FPS genre is better with keyboard and mouse.

I am a pc person for many different reasons - watching movies, listening to music, working, managing my accounts on social networks...

I never liked tablets. Way too big to fit into pocket, too small to enjoy a movie or to minimalistic to enjoy a game with not enough functions to do anything seriously.

Of course, I use my smartphone a lot, but that's mainly when I am not home or in work and only for basic things, it's not something I would like to spend my free time on, If I have a choice.
 
My first x86 computer was an Acer Aspire in 1996. It had a Cyrix "IBM P150" CPU that was nowhere near comparable to an Intel CPU. Games like Quake worked far better on a Pentium 133 CPU. It also had Win95A and a buttload of software. I couldn't believe it when I saw Fury3 running better on a store's 75mhz Pentium system.

Cyrix's FPU performance was practically non-existent.
 
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Ichinisan said:
My first x86 computer was an Acer Aspire in 1996. It had a Cyrix "IBM P150" CPU that was nowhere near comparable to an Intel CPU. Games like Quake worked far better on a Pentium 133 CPU. It also had Win95A and a buttload of software. I couldn't believe it when I saw Fury3 running better on a store's 75mhz Pentium system.

Cyrix's FPU performance was practically non-existent.
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Me too! Crazy, huh?
FWIW, that should be written "Fury^3" if you cant type powers.
 
I bet for most people here what you did 10 or 15 years ago is totally different to now.
Now you can wander around your house with a phone or tablet streaming videos from the internet via wifi and watch something while doing whatever (kitchen, toilet, you choose).

10~15 years ago maybe you had a TV in the kitchen and could watch a few channels on it.
You couldn't do half of what you can now.
 
My first computer was a 233mhz Pentium II with 64mb of SDRAM and a whopping 8mb VGA card. Current computer is a quad-core AMD Phenom II 3.2ghz with 8GB DDR2 and dual 1GB Radeon 6850s. Even it's getting outdated. The mobo is four years old. I'll build a new rig next summer. Waiting for AMD to push out Volcanic Islands and Excavator architectures.

A lot has changed since I was a kid, born in the mid 80s, growing up in the early 90s. Computers were self contained boxes for doing your taxes and playing Carmen SanDiego. We got the Web fairly early on for my dad's business, however it was extremely limited. The early Web experience was through portals. It was mostly educational at the time. Porn didn't come until much later for me. I didn't have much use to be online. Now it's my biggest time waster.

For TV we had basic cable. It was the norm by the end of the 80s. I don't ever remember a time when we didn't have it. We got about 30 channels. This grew to about 60 by the late 90s when the CRTC allowed all the specialty stations to broadcast as part of mandatory carriage. I watched A LOT of TV back then. Probably why I work at a television station now. I have satellite today though I barely watch it. Can go days without putting it on. The idea of having to tune in at a specific time just became lost on me. Not to mention a lot of the content is just crap now. Netflix and YouTube have become my go to places to watch video.

Also as a kid, my dad was a civil engineer. He had to travel to job sites, so had a car phone to keep in touch with the office. Thing was the size of a high power car stereo amp and had to have the little antenna cut into the window. He had a beeper too. I think he had a Motorola MicroTAC at one point. Now he has an Android phone. Just sits on the couch Googling things when he's not using it to harass my mom. Then there's my iPhone which is as powerful as the laptop I had in University but a fraction the size.
 
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