A laptop with a built-in subwoofer? Yikes...

Also anyone remember the days when 64 MB of SDRAM was a thing? Anybody? Nobody? How about MMX? GeForce MX? ATI 3D Rage? 2 Voodoo IIs in SLI? I only had 32 MB of SDRAM (not DDR) while everyone else was on 128-256 MB DDR SDRAM. Those were the days where I didn't know why I had a computer. I didn't even have USB 1.1. It was 2 USB 1.0 slots plugged into the PCI slot because the motherboard didn't actually support it. Also there were a lot more PCI slots in motherboards back then wasn't there?

Anyway this laptop is weird. And having to flip the numpad for mouse controls (if you didn't bring a mouse) seems annoying. Then again, nobody plays games on a touchpad, so there is that... THIS LAPTOP IS WEIRD!

...GET OFF MAH LAWN! MAAAAAAAATLOOOOOCK!

Oh yeah I remember all those computer years. I remember buying the Intel Overdrive cpu's that would let your 486 run 25mhz faster! Voodoo II? yep. Great card. I think I paid $250? for it, and it made quake2 look incredible. I remember when I bought my 2400 baud modem, and all those hours of tinkering with modem AT commands to get a couple more kbit's of speed! I remember when a guy at work got a CD Rom (1x read only)!!!

Good times! Remember getting the booklet with the motherboard that went over all the jumper settings? It was like 26 pages of jumper settings that you had to read through depending on the processor.

Turbo buttons to change the CPU clock speed and an LED display on your tower/horizontal case to show it off. Accessing BBS being the main way to communicate and share content. Jumper settings, whoo boy jumper settings... CD-ROMs that involve pulling most of the drive out, opening the top, clicking in the CD, closing the top, and then pushing the drive back in (although my family had the later generation where it was 4X read). ATI 3D Xpression 2MB being an actual card that was sold. Matrox being the go-to card for video editing. SCSI before SSD. FireWire before USB. Serial cable before LAN. Memory tests upon bootup. Netscape Navigator being a thing. PC speaker never being popular even during its time so God knows why they kept producing it. Being stuck with CGA while the rest of the world had EGA, VGA, and even SVGA. Degaussing monitors, and getting shocked when touching the screen sometimes. Three button mice being a luxury, and even mostly unnecessary when you're only using DOS. Soundblaster 16/AWE32/AWE64 being a HUGE luxury (yes I know I'm jumping between different generations between DOS and Windows XP), and Soundblaster Live! and Live! Value proving you're a hardcore gamer. A LOT more joystick and gamepad peripherals available for PC due to flight simulators. Game boxes being a lot bigger and cover art being a lot more misleading. Porno GIFs before videos. DivX before XVid before H.264 in an MP4 container. MIDI before MP3.

Whaddaya say we go to the nearest park bench, and feed some ducks in a pond while talking about dem good ol' days for several hours, and then yell at the sky for a bit after that? I'll bring prune juice. Mmm prune juice. WHERE'S MAH CANE?! MAAAAAATLOOOOOOCK! HE'LL ALWAYS BEAT PERRY MASON! Mumble mumble Columbo....Zzzzzzzzz...

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