Blank thoughts, unimportant but I find them interesting.
When I started in computers it was all laptops for me in school. I had a desktop at home but I obviously couldn't take that anywhere. I really grew attached to laptops. They were much more convenient. No ball mouse needing a cleaning every 2 or 3 weeks, OK keyboards though none were dvorak and only recently did I really bother changing the keys (had dvorak as a kid / got the short straw and had to learn kek) around. Either way, it was cool. I was the only kid in my school district who could use a laptop because I couldn't write as fast as the other kids (175-190 WPM on a good day HA). Eventually I came up with my own writing style combining print shorthand and cursive but that was in highschool.
First laptop was a Toshiba Elite\Pro 144 pentium 2 with windows 95. I wasn't allowed to play anything on it and it was for only writing notes on. Printer port didn't even work and I had to use microsoft writer or CrystalText (though CText was in terminal and was faster. Probably why I do notes like I do in Nano nowadays) and it seemed too slow eventually. This was in about 2nd grade that I got this, maybe 3rd, and it was a big deal to even get signage. 2003 was a year that people started getting dial up in my town that was outside of low baud rates (1200 - 2400 compared to a 56 and 96k modem it was just a dead crawl). It was also the year my schools had actually bought computers and the first year I had used OSX on a G3. I kinda always wanted one and only recently actually perused apple products.
By 5th grade I had gotten a new laptop though I am not sure what year. I think I had that Elite\Pro until somewhere mid 5th grade and I got a new dell for xmas. A Dell Inspiron B120! It wasn't great at all but I kick myself every day for recycling it... Had a Celeron C series so it was a Pentium M celeron, 1.4 GHz, I think it had an intel 820 or 720 GMA GPU on it so it wasn't the best thing you could ever want, though it was 16:10, and I think 256 or 386 MB of ram that I made 2 GB eventually. I played IL-Stormivik on it in middle school. When me and my sister got a Wii for Xmas she managed to do what everyone else had been doing around the world and smashed my laptop screen. My heart was broken to be honest. It was the first computer I had complete control over.
7th grade I get an upgrade from my B120 to my HP NW6000. It had immense heat issues that wouldn't stop and I was told my dell was my gaming computer and my HP would stay out of my room and only do work. Problem was it would explode every week and I would get yelled at for playing games on it (even though there never was any games on it).
When high school had swung around I was still the only kid who could have a laptop in school. They allowed some other kids to bring in theirs but they were big gaming laptops that sounded like jets. They were banned from having them because 1 of the kids set up a quake server and thats what they did all day. The school decided I must have been playing games and wanted to rummage through my stuff like they did the other kids laptops but I told them they could piss off. It was my property and they had no right. When they had tried to take it I unplugged it. The battery had been vastly declining on my 6000 and if I unplugged it the unit would stay on for 50 seconds and then shut off. This seemed to piss off the teachers (even though I technically did what they asked) and I got suspended. Then my dad decided to take my laptop from me for a few weeks which made it hard to study for exams (I failed them all but math because didn't have my notes) and when he gave me the laptop back I blamed him for my exams. Still do. He's retarded.
Eventually the processor socket in my HP exploded and my mother was convinced video games had caused it. Then HER 6000 exploded (we got 2 on a deal). I had to use what I could find at my new job and used an IBM 600X and an IBM transnote in tandem for the rest of my sophomore year. Was really effective actually. It was a pain sometimes as I couldn't really do much on the internet but the school refused to help me and my parents would bitch whenever I mentioned computers. My job at the high school doing IT led me to comprenew where I salvaged my NW8000, direct upgrade from my 6000, for 20 bucks. What a deal! I had seen this laptop on sal for 500 bucks in a few places a couple years back (2008 is when I saw them, talking around the end of 2011 at this point) and I was so excited. The 6000 had an ati 9550 in it and could barely run AudioSurf and TF2. My new NW8000 could do all my games and ran great and had better cooling! Plus big screen!
Eventually I god really into photography and my 8000 ran XP. I couldn't run photoshop on it and my parents couldn't figure out why. I dug around for super sales and found a lenovo B575 on sale for 180 at best buy. What a deal! And when I got it I could play TF2 way better! I could do photo's and stuff! But it bothered me that it was 16:9 and 1366|768 at that. People told me that was normal and that my 8000 was garbage for the square screen. 5:4 huge dimension good GPU you wot m8? (Good GPU compared to a Mobility FireGL T2). Skip ahead a few years and now I'm sitting here.
With this new laptop I started at sub notebooks, floppy disks, dual CD drives, all 4:3 or 5:4 and one 16:10... Now I have this thin thing that doesn't weigh anything that is as powerful both CPU and GPU wise as my Phenom box was when I first built it. I find this.... Odd... to say the least. I have had so many years of hardware in so many iterations I find it funny that people question my sanity for still exploring pentium M's!
"Ew no throw that out you NEEEEEEEED 8 cores"
I'd like 8 cores. 8 separate sockets that is :D
Getting this Y40-70 has made me think about all that I have had and how fortunate that I have been to have anything for myself to use. Funny to think that I have been able to become "up to date" since really getting into the forum around 2013 and joining in 2014. I hate to think that so much stuff like this gets thrown out and forgotten as well... So much wasted...
Makes me wonder what will happen next!