Not just how it physically looks but, y'know, the vibes.
Athlon XP for me, easy.
the atom processors produced the BIGGEST variety of devices in the history of the personal computer platform. the like 2007-2011 era was populated with gobs of second- and third-gen netbooks, but also just bizarre little Gadgets that happened to run windows and linux (and in many cases, macos via hackintosh.) You could get palmtops with tiny thumb keyboards and smart barcode scanners and weird cop car tablets with strange docks. all kinds of wacky shit that ONLY existed because the atom made x86 easy to put in a package of any imaginable size and shape, and delivered almost as much battery life as arm platforms. and the performance was like... bad, yes, but like celeron bad. non-ideal, but completely reasonable if you weren't being deliberately obtuse about your expectations. the atom was the crowning achievement of mids. we stan a regular guy.
oh but I can't resist actually addressing the topic of this good old fashioned chain mail. It's the WinChip, without a doubt. "THE CHIP FOR WINDOWS," they proclaimed, when "FOR WINDOWS" meant no FPU. Now at the time this wasn't that crazy, lots of basic PCs didn't have an FPU, it was sold as an addon feature through the 386 era. But the WinChip launched at the tail end of not having an FPU being acceptable, and so despite some improvements over time, it was pretty quietly relegated to the garbage heap of history. It's comparable to other unsuccessful x86 entries like the rise, but for Windows.
Imagine if that kind of marketing for CPUs actually caught on, and we lived in an era of the AMD Winzen and Apple Mac2.
Actually I guess we kind of do live in that later one.
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