People bitching about computer prices have no idea how expensive this shit was back in the 90's / 2000's.
>>523670401Yeah but that was actually useful not bloated pajeet ai spyware
>>523670401based and Compaq pilled
>>523670401They have no fucking idea. I remember in highschool my friend dropped 3k on a computer. It could play Morrowind and Starcraft perfectly.PC is the best shit ever. Only one system you can play dos games, emulation, and every single game made in the past 40+ years.Even going into 2026 the next generation consoles can't even guarantee 60-120fps on all games. Pathetic.
>>523670401lol if you think agi bullshit hasnt been around since the 1950-00's your a stoogePCs your phones all spy on you and contribute to the botnet since intels management engine all the way back to the early world wide web back in 1992+
>>523670401imagine paying 3000$ for a PC 30 years ago, would be like 6000$ now
>>523670401I miss when computers looked like that, why do modern computers look gay?
>>523670401I remember buying an ibm PowerPC for work in 1997 and it was $2100. Not even adjusted for inflation. I make 15% more now than I did back then. I could afford a lot more shit
>>523670401Something those old PCs just had a little bit of soul compared to today. Internet was better to. Over time Graphic cards and processors got more powerful, and yet the quality of internet and computer use has gone down in response.>>523670485FPBP
Blessings to you who read this postOP is a fag
>>523670401So? Quality of life isn’t supposed to decline and computers are a bigger part of daily life now
>>523670485>that was actually usefulyou can do more on a $20 device sold at the checkout counter of a grocery store now
>>523670401The thing people really miss is jews and shitskins being less influent
>>523670686Would be like buying a car
I still have an old Win98 PC, kind of fun to boot it every now and then, thinking about how enshittiefied Win11 is, while using Linux on the daily
>>523670564this is the smoothest mouse none of you faggot zoomers will ever know. you knew when she was gettin build up, and then you'd bust out that cutip.. and the next time it ran mint as fuck.. it was great. my parents drop 4grand on a 6115 performa pc when i was a tiny kid. we then got a athlon 800 to replace that. people crying about the high end ram being high end are retarded. i have ddr3 64 gigs and my pc still boots in like 4 seconds. i don't game heavy and it works for work and even the games i like.first time i've posted since they put this 180 second bullshit wait. fuck jews free robert.
>>523670401ahh the good ol days when it was only white or maybe asian nerds online, no niggers, and very few women (only the true nerds).
>>523670401>>523670564>here's why not being able to afford things is actually safe and effective!!These RNC campaign shills are even more brazen than the DNC shills that were trying to gaslight everyone about the economy under Biden. Fuck off. You were supposed to fix inflation, not make it worse.
>>523670773>I make 15% more now than I did back thenman howd you fuck up so bad
I paid a fortune for mine, melted it eventually playing Unreal Tournament with all the specs turned up. I’m playing Bannerlord 2 Warsails DLC at the mo’. Frickin’ rocks. My Nord guy hasn’t bought a ship yet I’m buzzing off using him to command frontline infantry in the shield wall. Fucking come at me you Battanian bastards I’ll throw things I don’t give a fuck! WAAAAAGGGHHH!
>>523670820>toFound the retarded nigger.
>>523670564Kids these days will never understand that having a computer meant having a quail enclosure, and hoping one of your quails lays a perfectly spherical egg, hardboiling it, pickling it, and having to replace the old egg in the mouse every 3 months
>>523671060this, take me back
Can we have 90's pricing for everything else too, then?
>>523670773I earn 460% more than I did in 2000. What did you do to end up there?
>>523671060when i was 12, i had a 20 some year old chick i met on a warez chanel want to call and talk to me, and she actually said, omg i can't believe i'm calling a 12 year old. when your based as fuck on the internet. they were hungry. she wasn't bad looking, but i only date younger girls.note this chick was not a pedo, she just found it wild i had so much warez and drives at the age. aol and hotline was 1990s peak warez, if you used kazza or any of that, kek fucking noob
>>523670401I had this one in the late 90s. Cost me $298. I only remember because I spent an entire paycheck buying it in high school. That piece of shit in your image was probably $200.
>>523670401You could buy CD ROMs too and store a lot of musics or porns on them. If you know about CD ROMS they are whatever. DVD ROMS were just a bigger upgrade and then they had BLUERAY ROMS which was even better. Now I don't even know what they have. But in terms of CD ROMS you get a lot more back then than you do today due to the Techjeet debt inversion curve. But yea it cost like 10USD back then for a high end GPU for gaming which is like 6M USD in today's monies, due to ethnic coin shaving economic traditions.
>>523671075hey retard RAM prices are not a product of inflation it's a product of supply and demand.
>>523670401>People bitching about computer prices have no idea how expensive this shit was back in the 90's / 2000's.Prices dropped when China entered the World Trade Organization and started mass producing affordable electronics.Prices now rising up again because of Trump's tariffs.You see there's export ban on rare earths.Only the rich will own a PC in 5 years from now. The entire Collective Zionist West goes backward.
>>523671683China isn't the reason electronics got cheaper. But whatever, make up your headcanon.
The mating call of technologyhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QDS4B0mM-ewAnd before this i had a commodore 64 and a tape deck. I used to wedge a match in the tape deck to hold the tape-head in position to read the tapes because if it was slightly unaligned the fucker would take ages to load a game and then crash and you had to do it again. Or just type your own game. >10 print “OP sucked a monkey”>20 print “HaHa!”>30 goto 10Like that. I call this game “Monkey Sucks”.
>>523671206fun family memories sorting the eggs, picking the best onesI can see why so many gen z are gay and trans.. no traditions
>>523670855and it's funny how the ben bernank 15 years ago used the price of an ipad not changing year over year was their proof that there was no inflation. everyone has given up on any kind of flimsy pretense and just tell the goyim to stop whining
Get a load of this >>523671683 plonker. >I’ll see if i can get away with telling some lies. You are talking pure rubbish mate non of that is true. Who did you think you are talking too? Go on, fuck off. Go and lie to your mum you silly little twat. Must be Poo on his vpn. Ruining the internet.
>>523671671>pressure the Fed into lowering interest rates despite hot and rising inflation>OpenAI takes out loans to buy out 40% of the world's DRAM capacity>All the world's companies begin panic-buying computer components to avoid being cut off>Massive price increases and shortages>"RAM prices are not a product of inflation it's a product of supply and demand"Fucking neck yourself right now you FUCKING RETARD. Abnormally low interest rates are triggering excess demand, causing inflation. This is the same exact situation that caused the Fed to raise interest rates in the first place, and now we're back to square one with inflation because they cut prematurely. This is 100% undeniably the fault of people who said to ignore inflation and cut rates anyway. OpenAI never would have been able to take out those loans if they hand't prematurely cut interest rates. Kys, shill.
>>523670401>People bitching about computeridots......
>>523670401i know mani remember buying my first Apple for $666.66
>>523670686$6000 in 1985 would be $18,000 today. I paid $1000 for a basic amd 586 in1997.
I triggered a shill with that pic here >>523671117 because its a deceased pootin turnip trooper who’s gone all norweigen-grey as is the raging fashion is shithole dictatorship mutha rasher these days, everyone’s doing it lately, millions of them. They must have VPN paypoos or dirty little wangs waiting to douche out a government approved propaganda post if they get triggered. Arseholes.
>>523670401$1899 for the tower. $369 for the 15" monitor. $199 for the desk.$2500 roughly, but you had a $32,000 salary.
>>523670401That photo fills me with such a sad sense of longing. >>523670564Haha the ball would collect black flecks, thankfully the laser mouse or whatever it was called replaced it.
>>523671051Good post.You're spot on with the mouse.My BEST mouse ever was a cheap Logitech ball mouse, RF Dongle.Wish I had that now.You're correct again, that a well designed MOBO + matched DDR3 RAM timings and cheap but well specd NVMe drives can surpass even the highest end rigs today. There's a sweet spot of diminishing returns.
>>523672405I use to dumpster dive on wall street for 386dx systems. Once I had enough parts I'd sell the complete computer. The home shopping network was selling these systems for $3000. Hardest part was getting a working monitor. Had to find an outlet before hauling it back on the subway.
>>523672547Oh and most people thought $32k was a good salary. Respectable.I entered the job market in 1999 writing ColdFusion and Perl for websites. I made a blazing $6.25/hr. Yes I was getting ripped off but it got me into the field.To me, $30k was a dream I'd reach someday.Back in 2005, I walked in to a place looking for a programmer and they asked me what salary I wanted. I skyballed it and said I need $45k.They hired me instantly. I had no idea how cheap that was. I got fucked over so many times. In some ways I still do. Nut thank God for compound interest, I should be able to retire around 55 if the economy doesn't collapse (It will).
>>523670401I remember wanting to live in the Packard Bell navigator house
>>523672641>>523672668>>523672847>>523672918>>523673016>WOW, ISN'T BEING UNABLE TO AFFORD BASIC LIVING ESSENTIALS SO WHOLESOME AND NOSTALGIC, GOYIM??
>>523671534ehhh why is the sub not on the floor or on the bottom shelf?
>>523670401Yea but you weren’t endlessly bombarded with ads and in-app purchases in your shit. The OS did what it was supposed to and just that, not full of spyware and telemetry.My Win98 machine still runs clean as a whistle and I can still play all my games without needing to worry about some online connectivity or “launcher” by some company to install or run it.I also don’t need to make endless accounts just to single tasks. And my games aren’t full of blue-haired freaks (if so I get to kill them).
>>523670485there are cheaper options today that are at least as useful. you just need to stay away from shit made for normies.
>>523670686>Mfw that PC is worth $22,000 in todays goybucks>mfw i have no face
>>523671051Those mouses were ass and you are sniffing the hopium if you think track balls were good. It's all we had, nigger.
>>523670401yes but there is one difference.......it was worth it
>>523671534kids these days will never know what its like to fap to dialup titties at a desk like this
>>523673474>My Win98 machine still runs clean as a whistle and I can still play all my games without needing to worryfuck yeah.I just took my old Peavey 90s guitar out and it plays amazing
>>523670401In the late '80s or early '90s there was an earthquake in Taiwan and the RAM prices like tripled overnight and stayed high for two years or so. I remember being smug because I had 16MB RAM and had upgraded just before lol. It was a lot for the time.These days I have plenty for my uses, many megawirtz worth.
I remember our pentium 2 cost like $4k all included, it even came with plastic dust covers for keyboard, printer, monitor and tower lol
>>523670401A good PC.has.always been expensive. Always.
>>523674151>mfw I bought a DDR5 64gb 6400mt/s kit about 2 months before the RAMpocalypse.I feel like a GOD compared to RAMlets rn
>>523674278Based anon. But even that could be too much... unused RAM is wasted RAM.
>>523674278What new games are worth playing?
>>523670401it was actually about the same price $1500 for decent pc.except monitors. much cheaper and better now.the furniture, yeah that's more
Yeah, but professionals also got significantly better relative to the cost of basics and housing.
>>523674373Seems fucked up we're at 64GB right now, my 2600k machine had 32gb when I built it and that was over a decade ago
>>523670485You could also be have fun on it
>>523670401It was "so expensive" in 2000s that I had 4 pcs in my room just so we could have lan parties with friends. now I can't afford a single modern GPU.
>>523671051No it wasn't lol. By far the best mouse I ever had was the first optical Microsoft one. Playing counterstrike with a ball mouse against people with optical was a form of CBT.
>>523670686Zoomers just don't know
>>523674695depends. if that mouse had the rubber ball with the heavy steel center then it was fabulous. all the light rubber ball mice sucked.and optical isn't always perfect but I'll agree it's better. actually it's the wireless part that is the best improvement.
>>523673293You could put it down there. It's a foot stool basically, but they designed the back with pegs so you could make it flat. When I had it I put the sub on the top, with the other 4 front/back on the top, and center under the monitor.It was an epic design. Two fatal flaws though:1) Compressed sawdust2) the center was too small for modern LCDs as it was designed for CRTs. I managed to get a trinitron in that bitch though at one point.
>Complaining about computer price increases is antisemitic, fellow goyim.>Real patriots are happy about lowering their standard of living.
>>523670564somehow this mouses last foreveri remember playing counterstrike for years not needing new mousenow i need a new mouse every year
>>523670401>but things used to be expensive!
>>523670686>$6000>A Ferrari 308 GTB/GTS at the time cost $30-40,000. Imagine buying a computer that cost 20% of the modern equivalent (the 296 GTB or GTS), which starts at almost 400k.Imagine paying 80-90,000 for a desktop computer.
>>523672405IMSAI went out of business in 1979. That would be closer to $30k today.
>>523673910I spent many a year playing starcraft and diablo 2 at that desk. 33.6/56k, aol discs galore. I remember my first "cable" connection was one of those dialup outgoing, cable download with comcast. Everyone was fucking jelly as fuck about it. Then DSL came out and it was bidirectional. Anyway, those were good days.
>>523670401>how expensive this shit wasAdjust for inflation.
>>523670950>this bitch had two floppy drives
>during all this RAM was the cheapest upgradeThose days ended a few months ago.
>>523675265That's where the A: and B: drives came from, with the hard drive being C:. It's pretty weird to have two 3.5" floppy drives though, usually it was one 5.25" and one 3.5"
I'm a 27yo zoomer and the only device I used with internet connectivity from 2004-2010 was a 1998 Sony Vaio laptop that my dad was about to toss. It had a floppy drive, CD-ROM drive (no CD-RW or DVD support), 2 USB 1.0 ports, 256mb RAM, single-core 1GHz AMD Athlon cpu, and an 8mb ATi Rage gpu. It had no ethernet port, but it did have a PCMCIA/Cardbus port and I spent my allowance on an expensive as fuck new wireless-G card and used backdoor/kali or whatever the fuck Linux distro to get my neighbors' passwords.Fun times
>>523675265Yeah it was common for a good while there to have both sizes. Plus a hard drive, and if you were lucky a ZIP or Jazz or Click drive maybe, or even a SYQUEST.
>>523670401I actually have the loan paperwork and sales invoices/receipts for this computer, here’s the listed prices for a 1985 AT&T PC 6300(IBM PC-XT-AT compatible)Pricing information on February 20th, 1985(actual purchase price on receipts): AT&T PC 6300 Model 1: 128K RAM & Dual 360K drives with High-res color monitor: $1991.50 256K Byte Board: $420.00 128K Byte chip: $280.00 Keyboard: $105.00 MS-DOS package(w/GW BASIC):$65.00* AT&T PC 6300 mouse: $110.64 *This represents a one-time right to use fee, NOT purchase pricePrices include N.P.A. discountBy the 90’s Packard Bell saved the day, and then eMachines(shudders internally).In 1985 a Ranger or Escort could be had for ~$6K. In 78, a thunderbird was 5K. An 86 Taurus was $9K- but by 92, $15K base.
>>523674955Not gonna have to imagine it for much longer the way things are going right now
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>>523675265Back when Windows 98SE could be installed from exclusively floppy disks- around 50 IIRC. I’ve done it on a Toshiba Satellite before I found an external CD caddy for it.
>>523674735In those days Dell designed their own motherboards and they were marginally faster than other ones at the price point. Gateway 2000 did too.
>>523675480>>523675555>>523675692ur moms kno about my 8 inch floppy
>>523675265>two floppy drivesNot going all the way with dual drives.
>>523675692There's the meme Japanese version of Windows XP on 7,000 3.5" floppies or whatever
>>523675925>A:>B:>C:>D:>E:this anon fucks.
>>523674373>>523674378There aren't many "games" that use that much ram. Mostly for video editing, using multiple chrome tabs at once, etc.But I can still dab on RAMlets who can only afford 16-32gb DDr4 Shit.
>>523670401nigga I used to play habbo in that shit
>>523676141Today's PCs are a bargain.
>>523676595HOLYFUCKISTHATDAZZLE.EXE
>>523674914I had one too, what was the turning plank thing on the right side for?
>>523670401I had one that put the monitor to the right side of the desk and that gave me scoliosis
>>523674914remember hittin that degauss button?
People are actually complain about RAM prices.
>>523670950Damn I had a 166. Oh the memories! 2mb of video card ram. Just enough to play basic PSX style 3D.Monkey Island 3 was my absolute favorite. The voice acting and art style was so great.
The fuckers still are expensive...When they came out they'd have been more than $10k in today's money.
>>523676916Holding paper to transcribe/data entry type shit, that's why the light was there. I never used it for that, I always had a small desk paper holder thingamabob for that purpose. You could fold it down like the bottom center foot stool with pegs and just use it as a shelf, which is what I did.Overall it was a fantastic design for the time.
64 GB of RAM is now at 900 dollars. Up from 800 dollars just yesterday.
In NZ we pay about 30% more because of shipping and a shit retail market.Difference is OP my family bought a Desktop in the early 2000s and we had it for probably 6-7 years and it ran everything we wanted.Computers now, quality is less oh your computers 2 years old? You can't play a game cause you poor if you don't constantly buy the newest thing consoooommmmm.Yeah I know which I'd rather have.
>>5236732935 years later it was walled off by piss bottles.
>>523677029*BWANG*
>>523677424This is actually the worst time of year. Companies that need to fix their machines e.g phone companies computers break someone buying their kid a computer fox xmas they have to pay whatever the price is in December within reason. It's not just the stock price.
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>>523670401I love how today you can just buy some surplus business laptop for $150 and it’ll work for like 15 years. I still have my T420.
>>523677582If I didn't share half a house with house mates I'd literally consider doing that lol. Perhaps a portable toilet, I hate it when you need to just piss and you've been waiting to do something with people online for say 2 hours.
this may stir some controversy
>>523670401In the 90s and especially 2000s, you could buy a heavily discounted PC a couple years behind the cutting edge and still have a decent setup for most tasks. The doubling rate for processing power back then was much faster than now. My parents still use a stock Win7 PC from 2010, which they only upgraded to because the early 2000s PC that ran the 32 bit version of XP wasn't up to the task anymore. They're about to upgrade again finally lol.
>>523677800brow beaten by win11 no doubt.
>>523670564I remember doing this. It was a complete mystery to me for a while why the mouse became shit but then I figured it out. Felt like a genius.
>>523677786I have been playing EQ since 1999...
>>523677786>may stir some controversyWhy?
>>523670401they don't make desks like this anymore. Can't find any with those sliding keyboard trays.
>>523678168because spacequest is objectively the best game there
Schoolyard rumors spread, nerds had discovered something big. As more and more cases came back confirmed, moments like these spread across suburbia. And it was cool. >MOM IM DOING HOMEWORK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYi-pMJ1vHs
>>523670401you didn't need it for everything back then
>>523670401in 97-99 a gateway home computer with a printer was a package deal you could get for about 1500-1800 dollars.you can get one now sans printer for 600 that is 50 times as powerful.
>>523671835>i had a commodore 64 and a tape deck.>the fucker would take ages to load a game and then crash >and you had to do it again.But wasn't it all worth it?
>>523676903Now you got me rembering watching some fucked up screensaver with flying eyeballs for hours.It was like After Dark for crackheads.
>>523670564Consoles are cheap as shit compared to a pc. That's why the performance is lower.
>>523670564>Even going into 2026 the next generation consoles can't even guarantee 60-120fps on all games. Neither can PC with these ai programmed unreal 5 slop titles. Pajeets and niggers can't optimize worth of shit so unless you got 8 grand for a 5090 and the latest AMD CPU along with 32gigs of DDR5 your better off with consoles going forward.
>>523677582sad but true
>>523676903Wasnt it Dazzler.exe?
>>523675925get with the times grandpa
>>523678625A 1080Ti still plays every game out at 120fps. (especially when you don't rely on Ai frames). As you said, people don't know how to optimize. Just turning ambient occlusion to low can increase fps by 20+.PS2 has the equivalent of a 2080 in it, and because its running through a console, they think 60fps is standard for 2025. LOL
>>523670686And half to two thirds of the price would be RAM
>>5236704013k for the pc 600 for the desk
>>523670507>compaq
>>523670401>2000Not that much>90That was expensive. Though everyone was using clones
>>523679083>Zip driveClick of death
>>523670686The middle ages truly ended in the 1990s.
>>523671534I need a desk similar to that to make music, are these still popular?
>>523670401i really like the desk but i dont think i have the space for it. im thinking about buying a sim rig and not havinga wheel on it so i have somewhere to sit and game that doest take up the space of a desk and chair. just a desk with me on top.
>>523680793search craigslist you can usually find a desk for free, you don't need all the shelves
>>523671534THIS hits home hard. I used to hangout with friends. Some I met from the internet on hobby forums. We'd all take pictures. I would make silly ass websites way before myspace blow up. I miss those sites didn't disappear. Then ago it was like the wildwest who the fuck knows what pictures we had up
>>523670401What are you talking about? 2000s was cheap already everybody had a PC back then.90s was when prices were coming crashing down.It was before that in the 80s when they were actually expensive, we had some late 80s IBM PC and it cost like $20,000
>>523670401https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/alhult-extendable-table-black-brown-30600784/I bought an expandable ikea dining table and modded it for PC use, drilled a few holes for cable routing and monitor arms
>>523670401Fuck off faggot, this isn't political.>>>/g/
>>523679781I've never seen one like it. I was thinking about redesigning it for modern use because I do woodworking as a hobby. Add some improvements, being actual wood for one, easier to take apart/move, etc..
>>523681420We did the same, low as pixel cameras, xoom, aol, IRC, those were good days.
>>523670401I long for the days of clinky, cheap ass, laminated particle board computers desks, bookshelves, entertainment/tv stands. Kino,Unironic. Modern shit has become so bad, that shit looks amazing right now. Plus it made a PC feel more like a PC. It was a full body experience. Modern PC in pocket culture is for fags.
>>523677786>cs1.x and starcraft25 years later and it still hasn't been topped, probably never will be
I had a Compaq K62 with a hardware 56k modem from an outlet mall for like $600.
>>523670401OP is probably brown. With inflation branded factory slop from HP and Dell is still expensive
>>523670401i miss the women of those timesthey all just wanted to have a bf or drugs w/ bfi looked through some instagrams of females i went to hs with the other night, one an ex gf and they're all haggered beyond belief now with sad postings, despite having 2-3 kids each
>>523675925Erotic.
>>523670401I've spent 9 years using an old pentium 1 processor because i couldn't afford a new PC back in the early 2000's, it was expensive as fuck ! it was the reason console gming flourished during that era
>>523670401RETVRN
>>523670686rent was 300 back then, every month, boomer faggot
>>523675555>ZIPi had a 100mb oneit was cool how heavy duty the disk seemedbut it wasn't long till they too became no longer needed when CD-ROMS came
>>523677239i plugged one in maybe 10 years ago and other than the response time, it was worse in every way - even the black levels aren't what i remembered - they reflected every light in the room and made it unnaturally darkmodern monitors are better... one of the few modern things that improved, but they are hitting a wall now and will probably turn to complete shit soon
>>523680940>anal leakage
>>523678328>But wasn't it all worth it?it was. i had the 64 and a ti99 and learning to program in 4th grade. every time i had to shut it down after typing all that shit was like watching a small part of my life end. the tape decks were a life changer for me.
>>523671060> 10% of the user base>90% of the shitposting Finland was a mistake. Asiatic homunculi the lot of them
>>523670401Heck, I remember in the dial up age when most people didn't even have a computer. I wanted to hack my playstation one to play copies but didn't after I quickly learned a CD burner was $1200.
>>523678250I knew a guy who saw a picture of a boob once, dude was a fucking legend.Seriously, until 1997 pornography was a page torn out of someone’s dad’s playboy. If you were lucky someone had a degenerate uncle and you got your hands on some good shit like Swank, High Society, or Club. Free internet porn changed the game forever.I rocked a $3,000 HP from bestbuy (gotta get that printer too!) from 1997-2004. Shit was cash.
>>523670870I used to be able to open more than 100 tabs in opera on my 800Mhz Athlon with 320mb of ram without the machine slowing down. Was so much more responsive than modern hardware on the modern bloated web.
