melbournian
Well-Known Member
We've had a few family PCs, the first and most memorable being one that ran Windows 3.1 and which at the age of six I didn't know how to turn on, but my computers have all been laptops:
1. 1997 - NEC Versa 2400 - holy crap was this a shitbox of a thing or what. You couldn't watch animations on it because it went all blurry, it had a whole 2 GB of memory, and I think I upgraded it to 128MB of ram from the original 56. It was actually ok to begin with though, because I just used it for school, but incredibly slow, and it slowly just stopped working. Oh and it weighed nearly 3 kilograms.
2. 2001 - Acer Travelmate somethingorother - this computer was actually surprisingly good, considering it ran Windows ME. Again it was only used for school assignments and the like so I never demanded much of it other than MSN Messenger, Internet Explorer and Word. However when we got a wireless network at home I got a wireless card for it and that was the death knell for that computer. Maybe if I'd downgraded to Windows 98 it might still be working.
3. 2006 - 1st gen 13" MacBook - My sister now owns this one. It still runs perfectly, and I've never had any issues with it whatsoever. I do feel like an idiot for not upgrading the 30GB hard drive though, which at the time sounded HUGE.
4. 2009 - 2nd Gen 13" MacBook Pro - My new machine which I've only had for a couple of weeks, which still doesn't have any of my documents on it because I need to go buy a firewire cable so I can migrate everything across.
And speaking of little kids not being able to turn on computers (or otherwise in this case), my little friend Ethan, who is 2-point-5 years old if you ask him, can not only turn on his family's computer, but connect to the internet, open Skype, and select his grandfather from the contacts list. freak.
1. 1997 - NEC Versa 2400 - holy crap was this a shitbox of a thing or what. You couldn't watch animations on it because it went all blurry, it had a whole 2 GB of memory, and I think I upgraded it to 128MB of ram from the original 56. It was actually ok to begin with though, because I just used it for school, but incredibly slow, and it slowly just stopped working. Oh and it weighed nearly 3 kilograms.
2. 2001 - Acer Travelmate somethingorother - this computer was actually surprisingly good, considering it ran Windows ME. Again it was only used for school assignments and the like so I never demanded much of it other than MSN Messenger, Internet Explorer and Word. However when we got a wireless network at home I got a wireless card for it and that was the death knell for that computer. Maybe if I'd downgraded to Windows 98 it might still be working.
3. 2006 - 1st gen 13" MacBook - My sister now owns this one. It still runs perfectly, and I've never had any issues with it whatsoever. I do feel like an idiot for not upgrading the 30GB hard drive though, which at the time sounded HUGE.
4. 2009 - 2nd Gen 13" MacBook Pro - My new machine which I've only had for a couple of weeks, which still doesn't have any of my documents on it because I need to go buy a firewire cable so I can migrate everything across.
And speaking of little kids not being able to turn on computers (or otherwise in this case), my little friend Ethan, who is 2-point-5 years old if you ask him, can not only turn on his family's computer, but connect to the internet, open Skype, and select his grandfather from the contacts list. freak.