I remember when my dad got a PowerMac G3 (I know this is nowhere near as far back as the PB 190 thing...I think). It was amazingly fast, able to handle anything we could throw at it, and my brother and I considered it a marvel. And now I find myself complaining about my 1 GHz eMac G4 :-P.
: I thought it interesting and amusing to hear the computer specs listed. The
: PB 190 was pathetically slow from the day it was introduced. Even my
: snail-paced PB 520 with its 25MHz LC40 processor was blazing fast by
: comparison. I had to smile when I read the specs on the PB 5400 - that was
: the one with the batteries that caught fire, if I recall correctly. Two
: gig hard drive? 160 MHz 604e processor? A whopping 12.1" SVGA screen?
: 6X CD-ROM? Built-in Zip drive (this was way before USB, let alone flash
: memory)? A 33.6 modem? Wireless printing (that was wireless via IR, not
: WiFi)? Oh, and a SCSI slot (way before FireWire)!? Oh, it leaves me
: quaking in my boots! I wonder how long before people start talking about
: the pathetic 17" PB G4 with it's cramped 80 GB hard drive (yes, I
: know they're up to 120 GB now, but I'm talking about my year old PB),
: only 2GB of RAM, it's snail-paced 1.5 GHz G4 processor - not even made by
: Intel, the crude 1400X900 display and it didn't even have a Blue-Ray or
: HD-DVD-R/RW drive! And it was heavy - it used batteries (they didn't have
: fuel cells back then) and the display was made of Glass! Hadn't they heard
: of organic LED's? Oh yeah, they were small and inefficient back then. :^)