When did computers stop being exciting and new?

**amcdonald** · 16 June 2011, 09:40

Do those popular beat combos sound too loud as well ?

**Old Greg** · 16 June 2011, 09:43

Originally posted by doodab View Post

It seems that they are everywhere now, and increasingly hard to get excited about. Is it just because I'm getting old?

Buy yourself an exciting new computer, and you'll feel differently.

**SimonMac** · 16 June 2011, 09:44

July 17th 1987, just after lunch time (pacific coast time)

**PinkPoshRat** · 16 June 2011, 09:48

It was the day after they all became affordable...

**xoggoth** · 16 June 2011, 10:03

Soon you will be able to have a computer tattooed on. You will connect to the net by wiggling your fingers and the image will appear at the back of your eyeballs.

**CheeseSlice** · 16 June 2011, 10:09

Originally posted by doodab View Post

It seems that they are everywhere now, and increasingly hard to get excited about. Is it just because I'm getting old?

Hardware is very boring these days.

The last trip I took into PC world to help find my dad a laptop was turned into a case of choosing between the red one or the blue one... feature wise they all seemed to be dual core 'something quick enough', running 64bit Win7, DVD writer, widescreen, bucket loads of storage, 3-4GB ram, etc, etc.

**doodab** · 16 June 2011, 10:21

Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post

Hardware is very boring these days.

The last trip I took into PC world to help find my dad a laptop was turned into a case of choosing between the red one or the blue one... feature wise they all seemed to be dual core 'something quick enough', running 64bit Win7, DVD writer, widescreen, bucket loads of storage, 3-4GB ram, etc, etc.

Exactly. Even supercomputers are just rack upon rack of black boxes these days. I want something that looks like a Cray 1 with cellular automata teeming across it's surface in glorious technicolor and a sexy robot voice.

**Sysman** · 16 June 2011, 11:14

I got reasonably excited when a colleague showed me his shiny new MacBook Pro with SSD disk late last year.

Not excited enough to buy one for myself though. Nice kit, but do I really need one?

**amcdonald** · 16 June 2011, 11:16

Originally posted by Sysman View Post

I got reasonably excited when a colleague showed me his shiny new MacBook Pro with SSD disk late last year.

Not excited enough to buy one for myself though. Nice kit, but do I really need one?

If everyone only bought what they needed the global economy would collapse

When did computers stop being exciting and new?