The home computer timeline. What say you?
Posted: January 19th, 2009 | Author: Gregg | Filed under: Mac, Tech | Tags: custom built pc, evolution, gaming, home pc, Mac, overclocking, pc, your desktop, your hardware | 2 Comments »I recently built a high-performance media-center/gaming PC and it got me thinking. I think it’d be cool to document the timeline of our desktop/home computers.
Here is mine, please leave a comment with your timeline (what you can remember anyways), as I’m curious to see what the readers are/have been using.
~1996 -Acer Familiy Computer – 100Mhz, 16 MB RAM, 1 GB Hard Drive
~1999 -HP Pavilion (My first computer) – 500Mhz Celeron, 196 MB RAM, 10 GB Hard Drive, Geforce 400 MX
~2002 -Alienware Area 51M Gaming Laptop – 2.4GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, Radeo 7500 64MB
~2003 -Custom Built Desktop to replace HP, AMD Athlon XP 2200+, 512 MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive, Geforce 5200FX 128MB
~2006 -Macbook 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 160GB Hard Drive
~2007 -Custom Built Desktop to replace last custom – 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 2x – 320GB Hard Drives, 2x Geforce 7600 GT OC
~2008 -Mac Mini 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive
~2008 -Custome Built Desktop for media center/Gaming – 3.33GHz Core 2 Duo running at 4GHz 24/7, 8GB RAM, 320GB Hard Drive, 3x Geforce GTX260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB RAM/each
The evolution is great to look at, please follow the same format as I am interested to see the evolution for the readers of this blog.
–Gregg
Does software RAID (1) require that all the hard drives be the same size?
Thanks for an idea, you sparked at idea from a concept I hadn’t given thoguht to yet. Now lets see if I can do something with it.