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Computers and upgrades

DEV Community·Nikhil·25 days ago
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My first computer was a Desktop with AMD Sempron processor which used to run at 1.6GHz. It was blazing fast! (Atleast until my neighbour got a better one.). It came with Windows XP and 512GB HDD. I learned all my computer black magic with it. I got my first Ubuntu CD mailed to me (from London!) when I had this computer. It came installed with GTA2. I played GTA3, Vice City, Thing 2, Age of Empire, Crazy Taxi, Claw 2 among other games. Everything until Prince of Persia Two Thrones worked on it. I still remember changing some random file and it's settings which made the game run fast on my limited hardware. It is the first computer which I opened up as well. Installed SMPS when my old one gave way. That was the only desktop I've had. The rest are all laptops. My first laptop still works as well. I run latest Arch in it despite it being 15+ years old. Despite it being toothless (lost a couple of keyboard keys, lost the speaker and finally have a line through the display since recently).…

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