The Ongoing March of Tech
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I remember my first laptop. It was a 2 inch thick, HP Pavilion 5000 something-or-other from Walmart. It was a gift from my Dad, who saw it on sale and thought me having a computer would be cool. It was...but it had a few drawbacks.
The screen. No doubt the worst screen resolution ever bolted together with a computer chip. You actually had to stand up and step back to make out some of the pictures.
The slowness. 512MB of ram. Combined with dial-up internet (remember?), you could take a coffee break while websites came up. And God forbid if the site had heavy picture content, or...gulp, video clips. You could time the thing with a calendar. Surfing the web was sometimes an all-nighter.
The storage. 30GB of ram. That's it...and that was a big drive at the time. Cheap Micro SD cards from Amazon have more storage...and they're faster to access!
My Dad meant well, and it was a pretty good computer at the time for a beginner. It was quickly out-classed and made obsolete by other offerings, and it didn't last very long. The wire harness from the screen to the motherboard broke inside causing a black screen of death. The old Pavilion was replaced, and now I'm actually three computers removed from that first step into the world of laptops.
That brick of a laptop was first powered on only twelve years ago. My new laptop has 8GB of ram, 500GB of storage, and Windows 10. It makes short work of websites...good for research. It plays video like a champ, and can download in a flash. It even folds into a tablet if necessary. The quick march of technology amazes me.
Pictured in this post, is another milepost on the march. Leaning against my monitor, is one of my latest purchases...a Kocaso W700 Windows tablet. It sports 1GB of ram, 16GB of storage, and Windows 8.1 all in a device with a 7in screen. This is not some crippled device that won't do anything, but a functional computer. It may have modest specs, but it still blows away my laptop from just a few years ago. It's a travel companion that runs full Windows programs. For writers, you could bring this thing wherever you go and jot down a few notes for your next story or novel. Maybe even bang out a chapter or two. And it uses your favorite word processing program. No need to convert files to move your precious words around. Find your favorite spot, get inspired, and write away. Heck...you could even hook a monitor to it (Micro HDMI) and continue to write at home.
Technology moves on. One day, they might just build-in a small computer into your brain when your born. Just need to upgrade it every few years or so. Sounds like a good idea for a novel. Don't anybody steal it! :)
Till next time.
I remember my first laptop. It was a 2 inch thick, HP Pavilion 5000 something-or-other from Walmart. It was a gift from my Dad, who saw it on sale and thought me having a computer would be cool. It was...but it had a few drawbacks.
The screen. No doubt the worst screen resolution ever bolted together with a computer chip. You actually had to stand up and step back to make out some of the pictures.
The slowness. 512MB of ram. Combined with dial-up internet (remember?), you could take a coffee break while websites came up. And God forbid if the site had heavy picture content, or...gulp, video clips. You could time the thing with a calendar. Surfing the web was sometimes an all-nighter.
The storage. 30GB of ram. That's it...and that was a big drive at the time. Cheap Micro SD cards from Amazon have more storage...and they're faster to access!
My Dad meant well, and it was a pretty good computer at the time for a beginner. It was quickly out-classed and made obsolete by other offerings, and it didn't last very long. The wire harness from the screen to the motherboard broke inside causing a black screen of death. The old Pavilion was replaced, and now I'm actually three computers removed from that first step into the world of laptops.
That brick of a laptop was first powered on only twelve years ago. My new laptop has 8GB of ram, 500GB of storage, and Windows 10. It makes short work of websites...good for research. It plays video like a champ, and can download in a flash. It even folds into a tablet if necessary. The quick march of technology amazes me.
Pictured in this post, is another milepost on the march. Leaning against my monitor, is one of my latest purchases...a Kocaso W700 Windows tablet. It sports 1GB of ram, 16GB of storage, and Windows 8.1 all in a device with a 7in screen. This is not some crippled device that won't do anything, but a functional computer. It may have modest specs, but it still blows away my laptop from just a few years ago. It's a travel companion that runs full Windows programs. For writers, you could bring this thing wherever you go and jot down a few notes for your next story or novel. Maybe even bang out a chapter or two. And it uses your favorite word processing program. No need to convert files to move your precious words around. Find your favorite spot, get inspired, and write away. Heck...you could even hook a monitor to it (Micro HDMI) and continue to write at home.
Technology moves on. One day, they might just build-in a small computer into your brain when your born. Just need to upgrade it every few years or so. Sounds like a good idea for a novel. Don't anybody steal it! :)
Till next time.
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