source: Maximum PC - July 2008
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amateur bird photographer | tech sometimes | mid-30s
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in reply to @windows95's post:
eh, 4 for 10, they at least got some of it right.
- multi-GPU cards
- spore
- BSG
- Eee PC
i dunno, EeePcs seemed pretty thick on the ground for a few years. At least with my friends we were trading parts. Made a lot of PanandaPCs
Tbh SLI and stuck around for a bit and was useful before it became obsolete with better hardware, both pieces of media also found some decent popularity, especially spore, Eee PC definitely didn’t stick around as long as you would expect though
Never had an Eee PC but my Acer AspireOne netbook was/is one of my favourite computers I’ve ever owned. Incredible product category. More of that please, don’t let Google own the segment with Chromebooks
aspire ones were so good and extremely serviceable too. loved mine to death
these and the plastic convertible touch chromebooks are some of acer's nicest computers, seems like they trade power/performance for build quality when planning a product.
full disclosure: I like chromebooks, if only because they run on open-source firmware and can be had for ridiculously cheap once they go AUE and get no more ChromeOS updates or service.
like, "1/5 the price of a raspberry pi" cheap.
Windows programs were still overwhelmingly compiled 32-bit and very gradually ported to 64-bit in the 15 years or so that Windows has had a 64-bit release and computers have come with it installed by default. When this magazine page was made, there were almost no 64-bit Windows programs to be found.
Meanwhile macOS, Linux, the BSDs, et cetera, have also supported 64-bit releases for nearly as long, and essentially all software except old cross-platform programs that started on Windows (and a bunch of music production software for OS X but that's beside the point) have long been 64-bit and you have been able to run these other OSes with no 32-bit programs present.
On Windows, today, right now, in 2024, Steam's CEF Chromium tabs are 64-bit, but the main Steam executable is 32-bit.
Going to show this to my friend and say everything on here is right except spore and the wii to get into a 12 hour long argument just to feel something
Say what you will about the Eee PC, anyone that was on my community college campus with not much money had one. It was affordable and just enough to get online work and documents done.
Thanks to the power of chipsets, the era of the multi-GPU is more promising than ever!
I don't think they're even wrong about the iPhone. It was (and arguably still is) overhyped ---- that doesn't even mean it was bad, but the hype was absolutely wild and way beyond what could be done in 2008.
the high definition one is entirely correct. hd is and always has been the thing you'd get only if you can't get uhd
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