Found an old review for my first digital camera from 2004

I was cleaning out a box and found the original receipt and a printed review from CNET for my Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P100. The review said it had a 'massive' 5.1 megapixel sensor, which felt so high-end back then. Now my phone has four times that for free, and it got me thinking about how we judge specs. What's a gadget spec from the past that sounds silly now but was a huge deal at the time?

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alice_mitchell1mo agoMost Upvoted

Remember when 64MB of RAM was a huge selling point for computers, lol.

craig.rose1mo ago

Isn't it wild how fast our idea of "enough" changes? @alice_mitchell, my first computer bragged about that 64MB! Now my phone has a thousand times that and I still get annoyed when an app is slow. We see it with storage too, where a 1GB flash drive was a miracle and now we complain about cloud space. It makes me wonder what basic thing we use today will seem laughably small in another ten years.

chen.phoenix1mo ago

Actually, @alice_mitchell, I think you meant 64MB for RAM, not storage. That was a ton of memory back then for running programs. It's crazy how the numbers have changed but the feeling stays the same.