Posted on 11/13/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I believe this is referring to PC versions of popular video games such as Madden Football, Halflife, Halo etc. These games need a lot of computer horsepower and 3-D video cards to run. The same with architechural programs (CAD programs) and sophisticated 3-D graphics modeling programs. Like with the games, it takes processor power in both the machine and video card along with plenty of RAM to render the 3-D objects in these programs with the speed necessary to make them usable.
I used to use Norton Utilities on it like once a week and kept it de-fragged and compacted and everything I could use, Zipped, LHArc’ed and anything else that came along. Now, I’ve got 80 Gigs and don’t really even think about it at all............
My summer job in 1988 in digital imaging had the old DEC platters the size of a chair. About the time I showed up they started failing frequently and leery eyes started looking at me. Turned out that the air conditioner was not being kept on during the weekends per mgmt and the heads would crash in the hotter/thinner air. They ended up paying $5K each for a ‘modern style’ hard drive (about 65MB IIRC).
And also amazing that solid state thumb drives now are 1GB and more.
As a bonus they add 24/7 Customer Service from North Korea. 24 hours on hold, 7 days a week.
“Even at the low end, however, image is everything. The gPC is built using tiny components, but put inside a full-size case because research indicates that Wal-Mart shoppers are so unsophisticated they equate physical size with capability.”
Don’t you just love it when they talk computer?
I miss defragging - it was fun to watch:)
Everex = 1983?
I got my first Trash-80 in 1979 ....
It’s still part of your system, inside System Tools..........
I had a Timex-Sinclair with 16K Memory Expansion Module!........
I have a PC running Ubuntu with nearly the same machine specs. Paid $50 for the used computer and wiped the drive. Ubuntu came in the mail for free. It was an easy install and works great. I added Wine so I could some Windows apps and Flash things on the web.
Oh, okay.............
Are we talking about a computer or a di*k here. (I know, I know, it ain’t the size it’s the motion)
what the hell is an everex?
I was in the SuperWalmart on Saturday...packed to the gills....
I paid $700 for a 20MB drive for my Apple II+.
And I saw a Computer Shopper on the rack at a grocery store the other day. It's a VERY SLIM magazine these days - a mere shadow of its former girth!
My first was in 1992. It had 4 megs of ram, 104 meg hard drive a 13 in monitor and a 2 ppm black only printer.
It was on sale and cost almost $1700.00
Inflation, what inflation?
Even at the low end, however, image is everything. The gPC is built using tiny components, but put inside a full-size case because research indicates that Wal-Mart shoppers are so unsophisticated they equate physical size with capability.
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Hmmmm.....I don’t even know what to say.
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