Yes and I also had a flip phone before the iPhone came out and a 90 pound CRT before large CRTs got affordable.
In fact my first computer was a 1Mhz Apple //e with 128KB of RAM.
In fact my first computer was a 1Mhz Apple //e with 128KB of RAM.
You were ahead of the curve on displays and behind the curve on phones and I guess congrats on the 2e start, I had an early Mac.
What does this have to do with the price of CPU cycles in clamshell PCs?
You abstained until ARM because you could see the future and you knew that the specs you demanded we’re gonna be available eventually?
Would you have been okay if Android phones had still been BlackBerry clones 7 years after the iPhone came out?
There’s definitely a balance between the newest of the newest bleeding edge hardware that we could only have dreamed of five years ago, and still functional hardware from five years ago.
Just like engineering is a balance between technical optimization and cost.
Seems like your mindset is one that chooses optimization at any cost, which is pitiable.
I bought an M3 when it was brand new but I also have a Dell XPS laptop that’s running an Intel 8th GEN processor. Both have their uses, and the existence of the M3 does not make the Dell worthless or unacceptable.
And a 27 inch CRT was between 70 and 100 pounds…