Monday, September 24, 2007
# 7 Blog about technology
I have just been trying to catch up on some of my reading and as I subscribe to PC World I thought I'd better get October's issue read before I end up with November's before I have finished it. One of the leading articles in it is a report on the first tests the magazine has run on quad-core PCs. They mention the top specs for one the machines they have tested. It has a Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700, 2TB hard drive, 4GB RAM, 24in LCD monitor and a Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card. I couldn't help comparing it to the first PC I ever bought. It was top of the range at the time and cost me around $2500.00. It was an old 486 that ran at 50MHz, a 500MB hard drive and a whole 4MB of RAM, and, wonders of wonders, it actually had a colour monitor. It had Windows 3.11 on it as well as a few other programs like Works and Bookshelf. Of course we didn't have internet access either. Around about the same time I went to an in-service training day to learn about using the internet but it wasn't anything like what we have now, it was all text based. I guess my point is, we have come a long way in the last 14 years and whereas once owning a PC was something of a luxury it is now fast becoming a necessity. I know I couldn't be without mine for very long. A bit sad isn't it, taking it on holidays!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Great photos, Aileen. Well done with what you've achieved so far with the program. It surprised me that you thought of yourself as not confident in your ability to do all this work. I'm impressed with what you've done. Talk to you soon.
Maggie
Aileen, you are so fantastic. I will have to tell you more often. The blog is becoming a great way of learning interesting facts about people you see and finding out stuff don't know ( or can't remember). I love the artiness of your pictures.
Post a Comment