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PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

with everything moving so fast it all was obsolete so much quicker.

*looking confused in Linux user since 1998* ;-)

My first real PC from 1996 was a Pentium 100 which admittedly wasn't cheap (~1800€ today including inflation), but had an easy and low-price upgrade path to a K6-2 400 with decent amount of RAM which was later being used by my father until 2010.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    1996...used until 2010

    It's super cool to use stuff like that. What did he use it for, word processing? I don't think the average consumer of 2010 would've found it adequate though. That was the height of flash-filled websites and multimedia.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    My dad did mostly some word processing and web browsing on his favorite bunch of sites.
    Processing power was less a problem in the end than the very limited memory (192 MB), even with the super-small-footprint Linux Distro.
    You have to remember, 2008/2009 also was the time of the EEE-PCs, that weren't that much more powerful compute-wise, but already had at least 1GB of memory...

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