Comment on Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)parentComments−michaelt1yInternet Archive has a bunch of scanned magazines from the period - such as https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-june-1996-image... and as you say, $1000 was on the low end.It's a real blast from the past. I'd forgotten you used to be able to pay $7000 for a laptop, and $100 for a 10-megabit ethernet card.−ardit331yYep, thanks for the link! Good laptops were 4-5k minimum. Thats like 7-8k now.−ldng1yAnd they used to be obsolete within 3 years, tops.
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Internet Archive has a bunch of scanned magazines from the period - such as https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-june-1996-image... and as you say, $1000 was on the low end.
It's a real blast from the past. I'd forgotten you used to be able to pay $7000 for a laptop, and $100 for a 10-megabit ethernet card.
Yep, thanks for the link! Good laptops were 4-5k minimum. Thats like 7-8k now.
And they used to be obsolete within 3 years, tops.