Loved how exciting the late 90's were for computing across the board
It does look beautiful but the 33k modem was yesterday's tech by 1998. I was already using a 56k modem on Compaq Presario 4504 which cost me less than that.
Ah right that makes sense33.6K modems were the tentative (May announcement) specs but when machines actually starting shipping in August, they had 56K modems.
Yeah even my 486 had a 33.6K modem. Every now and then, apple jumps ahead in specs (e.g. M1) but most times, they're behind gb for gb, mhz for mhz (of course this doesnt take into account the optimizations which likely allows them to get away with it a bit more than usual). Even today, they took forever to upgrade from 16gb and 64gb base storages and it wasn't long ago that they were selling macs with dual core processors.It does look beautiful but the 33k modem was yesterday's tech by 1998. I was already using a 56k modem on Compaq Presario 4504 which cost me less than that.
The 80s were even better. By the time the 90s had fully set in, PCs + Windows had started to dominate both office and home, and manufacturers, largely other than Apple, Acorn, Amiga and Atari, were scared to innovate. Ten years earlier it was truly a free for all, with dozens of manufacturers in the UK and US offering competing products, each one with a certain USP, and with each new generation genuinely improving on the last in exciting ways. It's almost impossible for me to explain if you weren't there. But it was way more exciting than e.g. debating whether an 11% increase in processor speed between the M1 and M2 chips provides any kind of real-world difference.Loved how exciting the late 90's were for computing across the board
No if it was from the 1950's it would have been shot on film with about 4K definition when scanned and wouldn't look like it was shot on a FisherPrice My First HandyCam.It is funny, it was only 1998, the video looks like it is from the 1950s.
Haha. No one proof read this article before they posted it.What is “a 100MB of Ethernet port“ ?
By the time they released the iMac, the OS for Macs and the chip sets were so dated that it wasn't worth the money for those of us who had to use computers as a work tool. I had long since been forced to switch to WinTel garbage. That iMac was typical Jobs iCandy. It looked cool to some people, though not to me, but was not that functional in a situation that required a computer to efficiently get work done. Just more form over function designed for the casual user who wanted to be entertained...