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Computers in 2005/2006
I was thinking the other day about how hardware technology is moving so fast ahead that it's clearly able to handle all the software thrown at it. Remember the days of the Pentium 166mhz, 233mhz, and so on...? Whenever the clock speed went up 200mhz you would buy a new PC. But now, the hardware has a significant lead on the software and the speeds and storage that computers will reach in 2005/2006 blow my mind. Right now a decent computer that'll run about $999 includes a P4 2.6 ghz, 512 megs of ram, 64 meg vid. card, and around a 100 gig HD. I remember paying $3,000 for a P3 600 mhz 128 meg, 8 mb vid card a couple years back... scary though, i'll never spend more than $1,200 on a computer. I'm just curious as to what you guys think a $999 PC's specs will be in the years 2005 thru 2006 will be.
My guess is this...
CPU: Pentium 5 (5.2 ghz) or comparable AMD CPU
Mem: 2 Gigs RD/DDR?
Vid: 512 MB
HD: 500 Gigs/1 Terabyte
... i dunno, maybe i'm being too optimistic, but i don't think it's too far off.
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