threeonethree
Journeyman
Hi,
Around 4-5 years ago we had just came out of the DOS era.I started reading digit around 2003.At that time most of the people were running Pentium 3 computers or Pentium 4 computers with 128 MB Ram if they were lucky. These computers cost around 30k - 40k at that time.Laptops were prohibitively expensive .After reading digit for couple of years and practicing on other peoples computers, I decided to buy my own computer around 2005. It had an AMD Athlon 2400+ Processor , 512 MB DDR2 RAM , 17 Inch CRT Monitor ,256 MB Geforce FX 5200 Graphics card, 80 GB HDD and cost me close to 33K at that time. It did most of the tasks i asked it to do and also ran revolutionary and mind blowing games like GTA vice city, Half life 2 , Doom 3, Max Payne, Unreal tournament etc. I also had a 512 Kbps Night Unlimited Internet from BSNL for around 500 Rs PM.
Then in 2009 , I decided to buy my first Laptop. I got a Dell studio 1555 with 15 Inch LED , Core 2 Duo P8600 with 4 GB DDR 3 RAM, 500 GB HDD , Onboard ATI Graphics HD 4570 with 1 GB. As you can see the leap in hardware was almost exponential.I spent around 60K on this Laptop then .From Desktops to Laptops which were many times more powerful in a span of a few years. Just like the revolutionary Jump from Days of Windows 98 / DOS to Windows XP. However there was no improvement over the Internet connectivity.
Now in 2015, My laptop has died. So I went over to the same Dell website and lo and behold, for 60K they are offering me a laptop with Intel core i5 Processor with 8 GB RAM , Same old LED monitor and a crappy on board GPU. Although This is an improvement over my earlier laptop but this is nothing revolutionary. In fact for most day to day tasks like browsing the Web , Sending Email and listening to Music, Playing Movies/ Games , This laptop will be exactly the same as my 7 Year old laptop. Now compare this with the phones available in 2009 to the phones available in 2015. Now i can get Phones which have an higher clock speed and almost same RAM as my old Laptop but seems like the laptop / Desktop space has stopped innovating. Also , I looked up and still could not find a BSNL 1 Mbps unlimited home broadband connection in 2015. This is shameful. Seems like the golden days when we had hope for better days to come are gone.
Around 4-5 years ago we had just came out of the DOS era.I started reading digit around 2003.At that time most of the people were running Pentium 3 computers or Pentium 4 computers with 128 MB Ram if they were lucky. These computers cost around 30k - 40k at that time.Laptops were prohibitively expensive .After reading digit for couple of years and practicing on other peoples computers, I decided to buy my own computer around 2005. It had an AMD Athlon 2400+ Processor , 512 MB DDR2 RAM , 17 Inch CRT Monitor ,256 MB Geforce FX 5200 Graphics card, 80 GB HDD and cost me close to 33K at that time. It did most of the tasks i asked it to do and also ran revolutionary and mind blowing games like GTA vice city, Half life 2 , Doom 3, Max Payne, Unreal tournament etc. I also had a 512 Kbps Night Unlimited Internet from BSNL for around 500 Rs PM.
Then in 2009 , I decided to buy my first Laptop. I got a Dell studio 1555 with 15 Inch LED , Core 2 Duo P8600 with 4 GB DDR 3 RAM, 500 GB HDD , Onboard ATI Graphics HD 4570 with 1 GB. As you can see the leap in hardware was almost exponential.I spent around 60K on this Laptop then .From Desktops to Laptops which were many times more powerful in a span of a few years. Just like the revolutionary Jump from Days of Windows 98 / DOS to Windows XP. However there was no improvement over the Internet connectivity.
Now in 2015, My laptop has died. So I went over to the same Dell website and lo and behold, for 60K they are offering me a laptop with Intel core i5 Processor with 8 GB RAM , Same old LED monitor and a crappy on board GPU. Although This is an improvement over my earlier laptop but this is nothing revolutionary. In fact for most day to day tasks like browsing the Web , Sending Email and listening to Music, Playing Movies/ Games , This laptop will be exactly the same as my 7 Year old laptop. Now compare this with the phones available in 2009 to the phones available in 2015. Now i can get Phones which have an higher clock speed and almost same RAM as my old Laptop but seems like the laptop / Desktop space has stopped innovating. Also , I looked up and still could not find a BSNL 1 Mbps unlimited home broadband connection in 2015. This is shameful. Seems like the golden days when we had hope for better days to come are gone.
