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    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    It could be as old as 15 years... If someone bought a species out i7 laptop in 2009 they may have upgraded it to 16gb at some point. Seems realistic enough

    [–] Psythik@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Please stop. I'm only in my 30s but you're making me feel like I'm 80. To me, old is a 386 with 4MB of RAM, a 40MB hard drive, Windows 3.1, and a turbo button. Audio was limited to a single channel square wave courtesy of the PC speaker, cause sound cards were expensive.

    Or if you want to really talk old in the personal computing realm, then we'll have to start bring up companies like Commodore, Atari, and Radio Shack. But their computers were before my time.

    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 3 months ago

    Well personal computing just moved faster back then. Today, a decent computer from 10 years ago (2014) is perfectly usable for most people (with an SSD especially). But in 2010 if you had a top of the line computer that was from 2000 it was basically garbage. If you had a computer from 1990 in the year 2000 it was practically ancient history.

    The PC market just has plateaud for everyday use. We just see incremental performance improvements for enthusiasts/professionals and little more than power draw improvements for everyone else.