But, the early 80s was a fast changing time for tech where new and much more powerful hardware was coming out almost every day.I feel like the nineties are more like that. Deep into the 80ies, most people would probably still get something with a Z80 or MOS 6502/6510. If you were rich, maybe you got an XT 4.77 MHz somewhere in the 80ies. The 80286 and later the 80386 were out of reach for most consumers.
The late 80ies to late 90ies things change rapidly. The 386, 486 (remember going from SX to DX) and Pentium all became in reach for normal households. At the start of the 90ies most people would still have a PC speaker, but then within 1-2 years everyone got Sound Blasters (or clones). Around 1992 or so CD-ROM drives start to become popular. In 1996 3D games go to the next level as 3dfx blasts onto the market. People start getting internet at home.
In the 90ies, if you got a PC, it would already be outdated in 6-12 months. This was certainly not the case in the 80ies (or 00s, 10s, or 20s).
Also on the software side there are huge shifts. Outside Apple, PCs and home computers were mostly command-line interfaces in the 80ies. But in the early to mid-90ies graphical interfaces took over the world (Windows 3.x becoming a major hit), true multi-tasking becomes more important (OS/2, Windows 95, Windows NT), etc.