Okay this is a weird thing of mine but I enjoy comparing technology prices from yester-year to today’s prices. I’m not sure if it’s because I used to work in retail and tracking that kinda stuff was important back then or what. So every once in awhile I come across a website, or a catalog that has ads for computer equipment from however many years ago. Infact, one of my favorite websites (that I lost because I stupidly didn’t back up my favorites back when I did my Vista transition) was a site that had ads from the 70’s and 80’s for the computers of the time. Nothing like paying $2500 to get 640K of ram with a 4MHz processor.

So in that grand tradition, and because I came across an old CDW catalog that was in the box with the tablet PC’s I brought home the other day, I decided to post such an example. Also for dramatic effect, I used Vista’s new (and almost forgotten about) snipping tool which rocks by the way. My blogging life is about to get easier now that I’ve remembered how to snip. It was shown to me in one of those mobile “Vista Rocks” demonstration seminars that I crashed. So without further ado… my handiwork.

 

So these pages were scanned out of a catalog from 2005. Just 4 years ago. Notice that a cheapie 19″ LCD ran for $340! Also since you can’t see it because I cut it out with my shitty scanning skills, a 20.1″ in this catalog goes for $750. Now here is a snip from CDW’s current webpage.

So there you have it folks. Alittle nostalgia for you. As I mentioned previously in my blog, prices are falling. Sometimes you just need a little perspective to see just how far we’ve come. LCD’s are cheaper than ever so for the love of Pete, if you are still running a dinky CRT monitor, UPGRADE. If you refuse, don’t ask me to come over there and squint at it if it needs fixing. That’s all and for what it’s worth… Happy Easter.