tiregroove t1_irp0xec wrote on October 9, 2022 at 10:58 PM

Maaan I'm fucking old. I remember when laptops were like NINE POUNDS so like, anything 3 or 4 lbs is still a luxury to me.
Same goes for internet speed. If I'm getting like 10MBps I'm happy. Every cellphone that gets 4G is fully capable of that.
It still seems like yesterday I was wrestling with wireless modems doing 128k.
Even if I can get the weight of my bicycle down to 21 lbs (in this age of 12 lb bikes) I can't complain.

See, this is what getting old is like.

YubNub81 t1_irp4mer wrote on October 9, 2022 at 11:27 PM

I remember being so excited when we upgraded our modem from 14.4 ro 28.8. Then later 56k was soooo fast

scaleofthought t1_irpf0cl wrote on October 10, 2022 at 12:51 AM

I remember having a computer guy come to our house and look at my parents computer. He was like "ah yes. This motherboard is capable of hyper threading. It was disabled. I've enabled it. Everything should load much faster now. I also defragged the hard drive, and I clicked the degauss button on your monitor."

We are like "yes yes very good. Here is $250 please come again"

I remember the first day we got a colour printer. Man was that cool. We PRINTED.... Our own BIRTHDAY cards. Fuckin wild. I loved that shit. I printed cards for everything after that.

I should do that again.

Harvard Draw 95 baby!

YubNub81 t1_irpfsgk wrote on October 10, 2022 at 12:57 AM

Oh man, your story gives me flashbacks of having the computer guy come install Windows 98 on our 486 using something like 18 3.5" floppy disks. We still had our trusty Dot Matrix printer back then haha

wierdness201 t1_irp4r2v wrote on October 9, 2022 at 11:28 PM

My laptop is still 9 or so pounds.

tiregroove t1_irqe3to wrote on October 10, 2022 at 6:29 AM

GO ON EBAY and score an old Thinkpad for like $100! Anything with at least an i5 or higher processor is totally adequate for running streaming video. Even a couple yr old Chromebooks are cheap!
No one wants laptops anymore, it's either phones or pads, so the laptop market is overloaded.
I used to do major computer tech but the market has fallen out... I HATE working on phones, you don't know how anti-user-friendly they are... to pry them apart from this horrible super-glue, and then there are TINY-ass parts, like the tiny metal contacts that go in the volume and power buttons, I'm not kidding, they're the size of fleas, and if you lose them, (which you do) your phone is pretty much a brick after that.
/Rant