Yeah, for what I assume is a Tualatin Celeron, the price isn't bad, for 2002.

Cheap PCs notoriously had less RAM than they needed, in that era. This was still in the middle of the GHz race, RAM wasn't selling computers, clock speed did.

oerk wrote:

Yeah, for what I assume is a Tualatin Celeron, the price isn't bad, for 2002.

Cheap PCs notoriously had less RAM than they needed, in that era. This was still in the middle of the GHz race, RAM wasn't selling computers, clock speed did.

They soaked you for memory upgrades like Apple does today. Never order a memory upgrade from the Apple store. You can almost always get it cheaper somewhere else.

OEMs do this a lot. Also the era of the vague undescribed chipset "64-bit video card" and "128-bit video card" tiers. IIRC Who knows if it meant Rage Pro and Rage128?

My mom's first computer was a Dimension. My first laptop was an Inspiron, but a little newer than that version.

Dell's Enterprise product has been pretty good for a long time, but their consumer product still doesn't impress me. Consumer grade machines are all pretty lame, come to think of it.

Is it just me.... Or is that woman screaming in agony/pain or something?
And over what? 😁 😁 😁 (let the joking begin)

On toppic:
That is a cool reminder of what things used to be like, back in the day's.
Nothing like having more things, than just the hardware.
The "history" or "documentation" is really great to have too.

I'd say she's laughing at those ridiculously overpriced setups. 🤣

I had some 80-100 newspaper (I don't remember the word for the "divisions" from a newspaper) that had cool computers tips and news, back from the 90s and some 00's. They also had a supplement with ads and back in 90s some shops had their prices on US dollars. You'd had to be reasonably wealthy to afford a computer back then.

Snayperskaya wrote:

I had some 80-100 newspaper (I don't remember the word for the "divisions" from a newspaper)

Articles?

Here are a couple of ads from Computer BITS Magazine I found some years ago at another forum. They're from September and October 1996 (click on pics for original size):

These ads give an idea of the prices for computer hardware back then *_*

JayCeeBee64 wrote:

These ads give an idea of the prices for computer hardware back then *_*

No shit! Stuff was expensive back then. And you _knew_ it would be outdated a few months later and borderline unusable after 1-2 years.

JayCeeBee64 wrote:

These ads give an idea of the prices for computer hardware back then *_*

And they're looking similar to the prices for the same things these days too 😲

Stiletto wrote:

Snayperskaya wrote:

I had some 80-100 newspaper (I don't remember the word for the "divisions" from a newspaper)

Articles?

Is that it? English isn't my primary language and there's been a good 5-6 years since I've finished the language course. 😁

Anyways, I'll try to take some pics of them... If I find'em. Last time I checked I had a bunch that had bite marks. 🙁 Damn rats.