PC parts price's from the year 2000 OMG YOU MUST SEE THIS!!!

[videoclone]

Was cleaning out my desk draw at work and i stumbled across these price lists from way back in the year 2000 Holy Moley have prices and hardware changed ALLOT! I was shocked to think we used to buy these parts at these prices!

( prices are in AU dollars from an Australian store in Sydney called American Research Computers, ironic much ? lol ) Anyways check it out.

Prices from 28 July 2000

Prices from 13 Sep 2000 <-- Things sure did change allot in 3 months

Prices from 13 Sep 2000

 

[eflat123]

Warranty on systems was 2 years parts & *7* years labor?!!?

 

[Pardus]

 

[videoclone]

eflat123 - *7* years labor haha .. they really would give you some good support back then.. Its a shame they dont have that kind of service anymore these days.

ActiveX - Its crazy to think that the Dell monitor back in 1996 has a higher rez then any 20" monitor in 2011

 

[Slugbait]

ActiveX - Its crazy to think that the Dell monitor back in 1996 has a higher rez then any 20" monitor in 2011

I think the native rez of all 4:3 20" and 20.1" LCD monitors is 1600x1200, isn't it?

 

[pitz]

Yeah but Onvia.ca/Onvia.com had $200 off any order of $250 or more in 2000. It was pretty darn sweet . And I knew guys who had dorm rooms full of 'free' e-machines, running special software to click on "Alladvantage" banner ads and they were collecting $$$ from it.

And the money was good in the tech sector and tech jobs. $40k (which is like $80k in today's money) simply to do basic HTML coding. If they made you work at all -- offices were turning into playgrounds in many cases!

 

[pitz]

Ick, why the h*ll was Dell selling PPro's with Win9x? That chip was clearly made for NT 4.0, or practially anything but Win9x or DOS (performance was actually quite terrible!).

 

[Paperlantern]

That is crazy too to think that machine prices could jump $400 for every 100MHz increment in CPU speed. While EVERYTHING else remains the same. Now adays, to go from a $400 machine to an $800 machine is a SERIOUS performance increase, and to go from $800 to $1200, now youa re talking serious gaming rig or halfway decent workstation. That's nuts on those prices man, oof! Good find!

 

[mfenn]

There are some people out there who would love to pay that $3800 for the CRT alone. (Not me).

I think the native rez of all 4:3 20" and 20.1" LCD monitors is 1600x1200, isn't it?

Dunno about all, but certainly the large majority of them.