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As per all magazines, it declined to 10% content and 90% advertising that you had to pay a large chunk of cash for. Good riddance to them all.
by kryten 13y ago
As per all magazines, it declined to 10% content and 90% advertising that you had to pay a large chunk of cash for. Good riddance to them all.
- nullc 13y agoI seem to remember it being mostly advertising even in the early 90s. My thought on the headline was "and nothing of value was lost", but thats perhaps unfair since the last time I looked in one was probably 20 years ago.
- fragsworth 13y agoI used to page through the ads and find the biggest, fastest computers and I'd fantasize about having them. (I was a kid)
- dntrkv 13y agoThat's exactly what I did. Kind of funny now that the only computer I own is a pretty low spec MacBook Air and I'm perfectly content with it.
- keithpeter 13y ago"low spec" now means "unimaginably fast and powerful" around 1995 and "Martian Supercomputer" in 1985. At some point recently, we crossed a threshold from being hardware limited to being originality limited (or I did anyway).
- dntrkv 13y agoYep, I think we crossed that line with the release of Intel's Core2Duo line of processors. My 2010 MBA actually uses the C2D 2.13ghz, 4GB ram, and a 256GB SSD and it performs perfectly fine for 99% of my uses. Only time I feel bogged down is when I run multiple Play! Framework modules at once. I remember when the first C2D benchmarks were released, it was hilarious at just how much faster they were than anything else around. Poor AMD hasn't recovered since...