Reply 20 of 74, by Skyscraper
My parents still use a socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ Clawhammer system as their main internet computer.
They also have a Core 2 Duo box for image and video editing but they are too paranoid to connect it to the internet 😀
I still say that socket 754 is borderline retro since the platform is 10 years old. Next year I will call it retro for sure.
Im not sure late socket 478 and socket 754 systems ever will be too slow to surf the net with adblock as long as they have 2gb memory.
So if usefulness is the benchmark they probably never will become retro.
For me the question will be if I ever will be able to call socket 775 retro.
I think s775 boxes will be around forever as computers people actually use for daily tasks.
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