Mionix Castor $53 not sure total number of buttons but i think less than 17 lol

in the late 1980s, I had to have all the bells and whistles. I remember the tab coming close to $3K for my Gateway 386 (my company covered 1/3rd of it). That would be over $6K in today's money. I had weird priorities then it seems. It did come with a printer.

I won't consider spending more than $300 to $400 for a laptop today. I am still nursing along my daughter's $250 six year old Celeron laptop, and my $400 four and half year old I5 laptop.

It had 32Kb of RAM.
It had two 5.5" floppy disk drives.
It had no hard disk.
It had no inherent operating system.
It had a 15 Watt power supply.
It was 27" wide, 18" deep and 7" high (or thereabouts).
It used IBM PC-DOS, no version stated because it was the first disk operating system ever released into the wild.

Note that it was not MS-DOS because Microsoft had not yet stolen it from IBM.

there is really nothing desirable in a gaming machine added in the higher versions of 10.

...the pro version allowed 2 things I use a lot:
>Backup to a LAN share,
>Remote desktop.

just not really for a gaming situation.

you certainly wouldn't game on a remote connection, and backing up over the Lan could use bandwidth at inopportune moments.


Not saying they aren't useful in certain situations but if gaming is the purpose of the machine neither of those improve gaming performance.

...I have now and then used remote desktop to play chess on a pc at home from my pc at work that didn't have the game installed.

The backup to a LAN share is more useful, at least to me.

I would expect that they would need Pro to run 128 GB RAM!

When I had my current computer built, the shop ordered Windows 7 Home but then had to change that to Pro (64 bit) because I have 32GB of RAM - that's the only reason I know about it.

Whenever I am planning a new computer, I check Maximum PC for their most recent graphics computer builds, then consult with the local shop for what they recommend, order the parts, and pay the shop to assemble the computer for me. That may have to change - the shop I have used for the last four builds is gone - the owner decided to retire. A friend's son has a computer business so I may see how well we work together. Or I may have to go back to building my own machines again.