Year 2000
Posted by Silent_Speaker_7519@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Packard Bell Easy One DC, made by NEC, came with Windows 2000 Professional, AMD Duron 700, 128 mb RAM, ATI Rage.
Posted by Silent_Speaker_7519@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Packard Bell Easy One DC, made by NEC, came with Windows 2000 Professional, AMD Duron 700, 128 mb RAM, ATI Rage.
TheJBW@reddit
AMD Duron, now that’s not a name I’ve heard in a long time…
diligenttillersower@reddit
Ooh.
My (or our family's) second computer. 650 Mhz AMD Duron, 128 MB of RAM, Riva TNT2, 20 GB hard drive. Bought from a local computer store, assembled locally. The price was 7750 Finnish marks (equivalent to \~2000 euros today). I still remember the amazement when my grandfather gave me 5 crisp 1000 Mark banknotes to buy it. He died the next year.
Came with Windows Me, which I uninstalled in a couple of months and acquired Windows 2000. Upgraded the RAM to 384 MB and installed a 80 gig hard drive. I used that computer with that OS from 2000 to 2008. As I didn't game as much then, it was enough for my teenage nerdy needs and for mom's online banking, bookkeeping and such.
My next computer was a stupid luggable 16" Acer "laptop" which cost 999 euros then (\~1350 e today) that died in three years. Sure it was leaps ahead in performance, but it sure didn't feel like that since it was so cheaply made. And ran Windows Vista.
Forsaken-Assist-1325@reddit
I thought the same exactly 😁