A full dose of nerd nostalgia

Bigger Rob on Fri, 2016-03-18 13:28

While trying to work out a good comparison of the latest VR offerings to the leaps in pc graphics of yesteryear (i.e. photorealistic 265 colour graphics) I stumbled upon this link to a December 1990 issue of PC Magazine … and found it to be an oddly compelling page turner … which I just had to share.

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PC Magazine Dec 1990

Comments

Wonderful!

PC Labs Benchmarked 285 PCs this year, including 83 portable PCs

FUCK! Look at the prices!

Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2016-03-18 13:56

I'll pop this Win95 launch comedy here:

Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2016-03-18 14:00

That magazine is all sorts of awesome.

I've been comparing my laptop to "the notebook that has the other taking notes".

Feature	Cyberpower Fangbook Edge (2015)	ZEOS Guide (1990)
Screen Size	15.6"	10"
Screen Resolution	1920 x 1080 (2,073,600 pixels)	640 x 480 (307,200 pixels)
Screen Colours	Millions of Colours	32 shades of grey
Processor Speed	2.5Ghz (3.7Ghz Turbo) Intel i7 4870HQ (64 bit)	6Mhz (25Mhz Turbo) Intel 80286-12 (16 bit)
Memory	16Gb DDR3	1MB DRAM
Hard Drive	2 x 240Gb M.2 SSD (RAID 0) 1TB 7200rpm HDD	20MB HDD
Graphics	nVidia 970M 6Gb	-
Keyboard	Full backlit Anti-Ghost keyboard	82 full-size keys
Weight	2.1kg	2.95kg
Connections	10/100/1000GigaLan 4 x USB HDMI Out SD Card Reader Bluetooth 802.11AC Wifi	2400 baud Class 5 Modem Serial Port Parallel Port VGA Out 1.44Mb Floppy Drive
Sound	Sound Blaster Cinema 2 (4 Speakers)	-
Price	£1488.00	$1995 (£1376.00) - equivalent to $3725 (£2570.00) now

Submitted by babychaos on Fri, 2016-03-18 14:50

Wow a relic from a bygone era ... when we still read magazines :D

Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2016-03-18 19:35