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Take a look back to the early 90's at this one...



Look off to the lower right hand side and you can get a nice inkjet color printer for $2400! These days you can get a GOOD Canon for $30!
 
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Yeah, but look at everything you get for that!
It comes with headphones, speakers a sweet joystick. I'd like to see an iMac come with all that for 1995$.
 
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But that mac couldn't compare to this PC having Windows 3.11!
 
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Holy crap!!!! Thats expensive! I'm digging the star trek game too lol
 
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18 years later and were only at number 7 lol
 
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8MB of ram . You can't even run vista properly without 4GB of ram (yeah, giga) LOL
 
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omg lol thats awedul 2.4g for a printer *falls over*
 
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wow. i remember when getting the encyclopedea software was actually kind of nice. Sweet I can do my report on *checks encyclopedea* THIS!

damn you google!

wait i <3
 
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8MB of ram . You can't even run vista properly without 4GB of ram (yeah, giga) LOL
BUT WAIT! For only $800 more, we can upgrade that to 64MB of RAM!
Roughly, according to this neat site...
Memory Price Site
 
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hahaha. thats awesome! $800 is a turd of a laptop now lol, probably about the same headache the original would be now lol
 


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