Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯
Wow. That seems really expensive for that time. I guess it must have been top of the line?
I wished I had better memory or still had the receipts for my home built 486 gaming rig (Matrox Mystique gfx card) around 95(?) or the year old Mac G4 I bought around 99 or 00. I swear it was well below half that^1. I've always been too cheap to get top of the line computers lol.
1 (ed) looking up the old specs and prices... If it was a G4 450 it cost $2500 new and I got a refurbished model. I guess I am misremembering the price. (Wtf was I thinking, spending that kind of money on a damn computer lol. It served me well for years and years though).
No need to ever get top of the line stuff, unless you're doing video editing or something intensive. If you're not paying out the ass for proprietary software you don't need expensive hardware.
I got a nice beelink tiny desktop computer recently that's better than MacBooks for $240. Only thing it can't do is go to the coffee shop.
A thousand times as much RAM as my 2nd computer.
An iMac with upgraded RAM and a USB drive of your choice woulda been cheaper. Weird.
All the best games were on PC. And you couldn't upgrade the monitor on the iMac.
I was just listing it as an interesting datapoint showing just how expensive this was at the time when compared to what people considered to be the expensive option in home computers.
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