• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hey, I had a great PC when I was a kid! Top of the line, no expense spared. Heck, my parents even bought a fancy solid-wood roll-top desk for it.

    …and boy were they pissed when I asked for a new one a couple years later, and they found out that obsolescence was a thing! From then on it was bargain-basement PCs until I was old enough to build my own, LOL.

    (Only one of those subsequent computers ever fit properly in that roll-top desk, by the way. That thing was designed to hold a desktop-desktop (i.e., flat, not tower), fairly small CRT monitor, and a dot-matrix printer.)

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      1 year ago

      Who needs a new computer every couple of years. 5-7y is normal. You should be able to buy a desktop for a 10yo and have it last till college.

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          1 year ago

          That’s a good point. I was born in the 90s but I don’t remember upgrading my computer that often in the 2000-2010 era when I would have started playing. Maybe I didn’t play intense games or something.

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        1 year ago

        That’s really a modern thing. It used to be that you’d buy a nice PC and 3-4 years later it can’t play new games at an acceptable frame rate and resolution.