Computers change all the time

[Youngie1337]

I remember back in the day of my 1.7Ghz and my dad saying 'IT WILL BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF' and OMG it did just that! Why is it that thinking back then everything seemed as fast as it did now, but loading up a 1.7Ghz Athlon would result in sleeping? I know software changes, requires more resources etc... but even the same applications seem to be slow .

Think in 10 years our view on computers will be like this:

http://www.pccurb.com/images/pcsetup1b.jpg

this will seem like

What do you think our children will say about our hardware? OMG how did you cope with that? I mean you had Windows Vista, WTF is Windows?

 

[Ducky Spud]

Yea, its definately gonna get to the point of 'OMG, how did you cope with a rubbish i5 CPU for so long!?' haha. I remember the second PC we ever got, moved from Windows 95 to XP and it was some 1.6GHz AMD processor, cant remember which, but I was so amazed!!

Im the same with games/graphics. Remember getting my N64 with Goldeneye and thinking it looked sooooo realistic! Looking back now its terrible graphics compared with today, but compared to the old SNES it was unreal

Is it Moores law which says processing power will double every 2 years or something like that? If so, we're gonna be using some screaming hardware in about 20 years haha.

 

[lasher]

Ahh the youth of today, when some of you were nowt but a tingle in your daddies underpants this is what I had the pleasure of using.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?28124-My-I7-killer

still working to this day, lol this thread made me turn it on and have a quick blast at programming, still remember it.

Then had an hour on parsec - spanked all over defender

 

[Youngie1337]

Ahh the youth of today, when some of you were nowt but a tingle in your daddies underpants this is what I had the pleasure of using.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?28124-My-I7-killer

still working to this day, lol this thread made me turn it on and have a quick blast at programming, still remember it.

Then had an hour on parsec - spanked all over defender

What language does it use? Basic?

 

[lasher]

TI Basic / Extended basic

will show a shot of a programme for you tomorrow, got just about every origional book on programming for it too.... Mmmmmm musty smell.. 30 year old books

 

[ppuff]

I just gave my parents my old computer to replace their old one and they were amazed at how fast it ran. I gave them a Sony RX650 with a whopping 1.6ghz P4 and 512mb. I bought it new in like 2002 or something like that and it is crazy how far things have moved since then. Like the DVD burner option on that thing was like $500 and to upgrade to the 1.8ghz chip was $250 let alone the $1200 it cost as it stood.For my junk PC that I have now I just replaced the DVD burner for $25. I cant wait to see what cool stuff that costs $$$$$ today maybe will only cost $$ tomorrow,maybe then I will be able to afford something, but then again it'll be too outdated to use. LOL.

 

[Rastalovich]

Thing that bothers me is that the pc I use for gaming, QX9650 etc, is already a number of years old - wasn't exactly state of the art when I got it - and except for a component or 3, the pc doesn't have any reason to be replaced during the current generation of Intel/AMD mobo/cpu platforms.

A 'sata3', usb3 pcie card required if I get hardware that uses it, maybe ?

Dx11 card, maybe when actual Dx11 titles are the backbone of games I play, which could be beyond the end of the year ? (despite secret hardware testing)

SSDs are a waste of time and definitely money, which I can safely say with solid experience now.

It really does concern me that the next reason for replacing the 775 platform that I have, that will compete strongly, and in alot of cases beat, the current state of the art hardware, will only get replaced if it breaks and no 775 component is available.

 

[Ducky Spud]

What problems you had with SSD's Rasta? I have 2 Vertex drives and they have been one of my fave upgrades in recent times for general use. I'll agree they are still stupidly expensive and would rather spend say £140 on a better graphics card/CPU than SSD, but if your already happy with those and have the urge to upgrade (which is what I was like) then they make you PC miles nippier

 

[mayhem]

I still have it a Zx 80 (and you think water cooling is new ... try we had to bottle cool this baby from day 1) and a Acorn electron .. yeh programming on there was easy it only took two or 3 nights to do a small game and then 30 nights finding your mistakes ... hahaha

I still remember arguing with a mate weather his + 2 was better then my Acorn electron and my other mate with jumpin about his vic 20 and we both laughed at him. then he bought a amiga 500 (a few years later) and wiped the smiles off out faces and we soon joined him.

 

[VonBlade]

Bloat. It's just bloat.

When people had to code games and apps to work on a 7mhz Amiga with 512K of RAM they did their best to get the ultimate out of it.

Nowadays they code sloppily and just up the minimum requirements.

Did you notice how nothing really needed 1.5GB of RAM or 1.8GHz CPU? It all went 1GHz, 1GHz, 3GHz + 2GB of RAM + DX9 GFX.

Lazy coders.

 

[Rastalovich]

What problems you had with SSD's Rasta? I have 2 Vertex drives and they have been one of my fave upgrades in recent times for general use. I'll agree they are still stupidly expensive and would rather spend say £140 on a better graphics card/CPU than SSD, but if your already happy with those and have the urge to upgrade (which is what I was like) then they make you PC miles nippier

No problems at all really.

Just don't see the benefits versus proposed cash outlay. (didn't pay for all of them myself)

Going to be trying some studies soon of pairing SSDs with regular HDD in raid to see what that hybrid produces. Most people will ditch the regular drive on arrival of an SSD and I figure performance 'should' lay between 2xHDD raid and 2xSSD raid. Although mechanics might get in the way if the controllers are still as poorly written as they were.

Bloat. It's just bloat.

When people had to code games and apps to work on a 7mhz Amiga with 512K of RAM they did their best to get the ultimate out of it.

Nowadays they code sloppily and just up the minimum requirements.

Did you notice how nothing really needed 1.5GB of RAM or 1.8GHz CPU? It all went 1GHz, 1GHz, 3GHz + 2GB of RAM + DX9 GFX.

Lazy coders.

Totally agree.

I still put this down to less 'computer people' programming, than 'trained' programmers. Which goes along with my computer people > IT people theory.

Changed one of my work titles from IT Analyst to Computer Analyst Although to the outside world, just the term "IT" means more to them.