I was looking @ some old shit I found in my colset and came across a  1995 PC gaming magazine. For the hell of it, I skimmed through it and found an article about the PC of the new millenium. :

"Within the next 5 years, I believe we'll see computers surpass the 1 Ghz mark, and grow above and beyond the 2 and 3 Ghz marks not too long after that. After testing some of Intel's new technology, I am confident their upcomming Intel Pentium III Processors will be able to reach this goal. One of the top exectutives at Intel has even speculated seeing a Pentium 4 processor by 1998. With the ever advancing technology of today, I think it's fairly safe to say we'll have a Computer with a processor with the following specifications withing the next 3 or 4 years:
Intel Pentium 4 - 2.0 Ghz
512 mb ram
40 GB HDD
64 mb video card
and more!
With computers like that, who knows what kind of mouth-watering graphics we can expect in the near future!"

and another article's headline was
"Sony to rival Nintendo for the console market!
Specifications for these amazing consoles revealed!"

(I modified it a bit, the article was like 4 times as long as that and I was not about to re-type that much ...)

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Originally posted by blade
withing the next 4 or 5 years:
Intel Pentium 4 - 2.0 Ghz
512 mb ram
40 GB HDD
64 mb video card
and more!

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Originally posted by blade
Sony to rival Nintendo for the console market!

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lol yeah i've had a magazine when pokemon gold and silver were leet, dead or alive 3 looked amazingly good (not out yet) and they were comparing halo to starship troopers on a beach...

oh yeah, the gamecube was announced as a ps2 killer

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Originally posted by blade
Intel Pentium 4 - 2.0 Ghz
512 mb ram
40 GB HDD
64 mb video card

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I suppose iut was a pretty good estimate, but we'ren't those pc's in '98 very rare, or didn't they exist at all!! Thats hilarious....

I think that pokémon games pwn3d completely!! I have some old mags somewhere I think. Its funny how lame they are, I remember playing on Tekken 3 on a demo disc, it was amazingly lame ...

When you read it a lot of that article is true, and a good prediction for the time, just a few years out maybe...but well predicted pattern wise...

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Originally posted by Attitude Extreme

P3 reaching 3 or 4 GHZ P4's out 1998 crazy predictions about the future

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I'm not a computer expert or anything, but whats the highest ghz you can get today?

with over clocking you could probably get to 4ghz.
In fact i saw an article about someone using liquid nitrogen to overclock a pc to 4ghz.
And super computers are probably in the terrahertz

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Originally posted by saralk
with over clocking you could probably get to 4ghz.
In fact i saw an article about someone using liquid nitrogen to overclock a pc to 4ghz.
And super computers are probably in the terrahertz

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err.....50 ghz?

lol.... in 98  there wasnt even 1 ghz and they expected 3!!

Oh well its good to think about the future...

One day people will laugh at you for havin 5 ghz lol...

Im making a prediction that in 5 years there will be over 10 ghz computers and there will be over 2000 ram

wow yer the future sound great lol i looked at this mag from round about 95 and it was like the top 10 nintendo games lol

"withing the next 4 or 5 years:
Intel Pentium 4 - 2.0 Ghz
512 mb ram
40 GB HDD
64 mb video card
and more!"

WHAT????!!!! thats CrAzY!!!1!!!!!111!!!!! I cant wait until 2001!!!
...what?....its 2004?

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Originally posted by blade

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Originally posted by saralk
with over clocking you could probably get to 4ghz.
In fact i saw an article about someone using liquid nitrogen to overclock a pc to 4ghz.
And super computers are probably in the terrahertz

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Na, not that high. Maybe 50-100 Ghz TOPS

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lol @ Saralk

and btw, you can already get 2 GB Of ram, DangerXzone

well i mean  a commen ammount

now i commen amound is 554 or something like that

and btw my name is DangerXone and soon tobecome DureZ if there arent better names out there

1024mb is increasingly common now, and iirc 8gb is the max ram you can have on a 32bit pc

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Originally posted by saralk
1024mb is increasingly common now, and iirc 8gb is the max ram you can have on a 32bit pc

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I just can't believe that they expected such results in the future of computing back then... I know that it was just a theory but its an incorrect theory..

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Originally posted by traxor
I just can't believe that they expected such results in the future of computing back then... I know that it was just a theory but its an incorrect theory..

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It's weird to think how rubbish the computers seemed when they made those predictions and in a few years, the computers we see as completely amazing now will just seem so slow.