no RAM, no SSD and no GPU PCs. AI is taking us to the dark ages
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Underrated comment. I had like.... 16 GB of ram which ro a strictly office computer should be more than enough. In HS I was using Maya and 3DSmax and the entire adobe suite for my multimedia course. And I only had 4 gigs of ram at.the time. That was consider a TON of ram at the time when most computers brand-new at best buy had 1.
Fast forward and I just upgraded to 48 gigs. It's such a large amount it sounds stupid. But it's not. Not to mention a 2tb hdd. I resent that I even need this size machine now for fucking office work. I don't even use fun programs anymore. It's just browsers,.adobe acrobat, and fucking Excel.
The government will put fuel efficiency requirements on cars. Sometimes I wish they out ram efficiency requirements on software. At least for basic shit.
And what were the resolutions you were working at during that era?
Exactly. While I agree that this is all starting to feel malicious, the quality/resolutions were minuscule compared to what we work with today
Probably 1280*1024 or something. But it was all I needed. If you aren't watching a movie or new gaming, you don't need more than that to be honest.
Email, spreadsheets.
I'll give some latitude for multi monitor setups.
I remember upgrading my winXP machine to a whopping 4gb of RAM so I could run Mass Effect 2. before the upgrade, it would run but the frame rate was extremely low. before that upgrade, I was also running games Pacific Fighters, a world war II flight simulator with fully destructible planes and detailed damage models, no problem.
games today hardly look better, both at a technical and artistic level, yet the system requirements have increased 10x