Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    3 days ago

    1996…used until 2010

    It’s super cool to use stuff like that. What did he use it for, word processing? I don’t think the average consumer of 2010 would’ve found it adequate though. That was the height of flash-filled websites and multimedia.

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      3 days ago

      My dad did mostly some word processing and web browsing on his favorite bunch of sites.
      Processing power was less a problem in the end than the very limited memory (192 MB), even with the super-small-footprint Linux Distro.
      You have to remember, 2008/2009 also was the time of the EEE-PCs, that weren’t that much more powerful compute-wise, but already had at least 1GB of memory…