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My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by preludeofme@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

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Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Wow. That seems really expensive for that time. I guess it must have been top of the line?

I wished I had better memory or still had the receipts for my home built 486 gaming rig (Matrox Mystique gfx card) around 95(?) or the year old Mac G4 I bought around 99 or 00. I swear it was well below half that^1. I've always been too cheap to get top of the line computers lol.

1 (ed) looking up the old specs and prices... If it was a G4 450 it cost $2500 new and I got a refurbished model. I guess I am misremembering the price. (Wtf was I thinking, spending that kind of money on a damn computer lol. It served me well for years and years though).

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The G4 didn't come out till 2002.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Apple did some weird fuckery with switching models and specs around that time but Mac G4 towers were definitely being made and shipped in 1999. I think it was a G4 450 or [G4 500] (https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_500.html).

But I probably paid way more than I was remembering above, because the 450 ran $2500 new and the 500 was $3500.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

No need to ever get top of the line stuff, unless you're doing video editing or something intensive. If you're not paying out the ass for proprietary software you don't need expensive hardware.

I got a nice beelink tiny desktop computer recently that's better than MacBooks for $240. Only thing it can't do is go to the coffee shop.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

A thousand times as much RAM as my 2nd computer.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

An iMac with upgraded RAM and a USB drive of your choice woulda been cheaper. Weird.

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