• @grue
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    1 year ago

    Hey, I had a great PC when I was a kid! Top of the line, no expense spared. Heck, my parents even bought a fancy solid-wood roll-top desk for it.

    …and boy were they pissed when I asked for a new one a couple years later, and they found out that obsolescence was a thing! From then on it was bargain-basement PCs until I was old enough to build my own, LOL.

    (Only one of those subsequent computers ever fit properly in that roll-top desk, by the way. That thing was designed to hold a desktop-desktop (i.e., flat, not tower), fairly small CRT monitor, and a dot-matrix printer.)

    • @EthicalAI
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      31 year ago

      Who needs a new computer every couple of years. 5-7y is normal. You should be able to buy a desktop for a 10yo and have it last till college.

      • @grue
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        61 year ago

        LOL, not in the '90s!

        • @EthicalAI
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          11 year ago

          That’s a good point. I was born in the 90s but I don’t remember upgrading my computer that often in the 2000-2010 era when I would have started playing. Maybe I didn’t play intense games or something.

      • @nBodyProblem
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        21 year ago

        That’s really a modern thing. It used to be that you’d buy a nice PC and 3-4 years later it can’t play new games at an acceptable frame rate and resolution.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Tech used to advance pretty rapidly, but I’m just going to assume they weren’t swapping out parts themselves and they were either talking about staying top of the line or it wasn’t really that good in the first place.