I think those are closer than we think. At least I hope so.

I can remember in the early '90s being told by my very computer savvy best friend that we would never need a 1 GB hard drive.

LOL I have 3 GiB of RAM in my C2D MacBook, and my page outs are at over 135,000 with less than four days of uptime! I wouldn't mind having an extra 1021 GiB of RAM. :-)

One thing I've discovered: No matter how much storage space I have, I can always fill it up and need more. A few years ago, a roommate and I quickly filled up his new 1 TB array. It might of taken us a couple weeks before we were back to scrounging for more disk space.

As for the perfect Mac, I would love to see an upgradeable micro tower with a footprint similar to the Mini, but with huge amounts of expansion space (for laptop components), perhaps with the option of 2-8 logic boards and processors set up as an internal Xgrid based distributed computing network, but could also be accessed and controlled individually (and remotely, controlled by another Mac or a future generation iPhone).

:D
You've discovered the first rule of computing: software and data will grow to fill all available space.

im allways clearing space from my mac

So am I.. My Mac is literally full now, less than 1GB space left over. Fortunately I've got a external HD with about 230GB free:D

i use my externel HD to free space on my mac hd. I split my mac hd in to three partitionsx

http://www.wdc.com/global/images/pro...sential_1U.jpg
Somehow I got this great thing that has 500 Gigs... A good thing, I should say.
Works fine under Parallels Desktop (USB)

This green ring looks magical to me=)

It's a fairy ring that leads to a fairy dimension :D
Heres mine ;)
I have a ring too, only it's kinda oval and glows in blue when it's on
Heres a pic of it... Mine is actually a bit lighter then the one in the pic
http://www.simpletechmarketing.com/m.../R2460-web.jpg
:p

Actually your right, we are close, think about it there going to be making 60+ gb flash hd laptops soon. And like 10 years ago, the cpu's were like 500mhz. Now you get that in phones, let alone pc's.

I've got a 500 GB external, a 120 GB external, and a 200 GB internal drive in my MacBook, and I find that I have to be careful not to fill up all the space. (To be fair, almost every file is located on at least two drives.) I haven't even added my iTunes library to my MacBook yet, out of concern for space.I suspect I'll be adding at least a couple TB, externally, within a few months, especially if the prices keep falling.

Fifteen years ago I bought a 486 SX 25 MHz 4 MiB RAM 100 MB HDD, and thought it to be a pretty powerful system. I'm confident in fifteen more years I'll be able to look back at my Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 3 GiB RAM 200 GB HDD and wonder how I ever accomplished anything with such limited hardware. The MacBook was cheaper, BTW.

Personally i think the MP when configured to the top spec, it ridiculously powerfull, i think that is the only computer which will say up to date with technology for atleast 5-10 years

Almost nineteen years ago, I bought a Mac IIci (25 MHz 68030) with 8 MB of RAM. I still can see the faces of PC users at the time, asking me with stunned looks what I could possibly do with all that memory. At the time it seemed like we were getting close to the perfect Mac. I doubt we're much closer now than we were then, and that's a good thing. There's lots of room to grow.

You young whippersnappers !! :p

I remember my first Mac fondly.

Original Mac Classic, I believe 8 KHz proc speed, 1 MB RAM, and a single 400KB floppy held the entire system, several apps, and all the data associated with the apps. (And MultiPlan wasn't that much inferior to what MS Excel is now!!!)

A few years later, I got my first external hard drive - 5MB total unformatted capacity, and it took almost a full weekend just to format it.

Ah, yes the good old days.:rolleyes:

My first computer was a MicroBee with a tape drive.

It just boggles my mind to try to imagine what the next 10-20-30 years holds.

Most projections one reads in other-than scientific journals tend to describe results which project not too much more than a linear increase in speeds, capacities, etc., etc., not just in computers, but pretty much everything else, too.

I think we'll all look back in 20 years and laugh about how low our expectations were.

The Mac IIci was my first Mac. My first computer was an Apple ][+ with a whopping 64KB of RAM! Of course, it came with 48KB, but I added the extra 16 KB one chip at a time. You had to be careful not to bend the legs!

My first computer was a Pentium III Compaq desktop (I think) and it had 20GB hard drive, 128 MB RAM and a 500MHz processor. I actually still have it. Only it's across the Atlantic, in Romania, in my grandparent's attic... My dad bought it in 2001. It still works pretty smooth. The only thing pretty much has on it is games like Age of Empires II, Empire Earth, Project IGI, Counter Strike, Super Mario PJ 64, Star Craft, War Craft (I loved this game when I was in elementary school), Tazmania GTA III, and others... good times...
My first Mac, is actually my current Mac, which dates from around 2003, has 512 MB RAM, 700 MHz Processor and 20GB storage, and a 250GB external HD, which I bought later. Im probably getting a new Mac next year as this one is getting old, and the high school I'm going to go to requires all students to bring a laptop to glass, so I'm probably going to get a MB or a MBP, or who knows, maybe one of those new sub notebooks that are coming out in January :P

Ever hear of the Sider? For nearly $700 you got 10 MB of hard disk space for the Apple II.

my first PC was an IBM P1 166Mhz computer ran windows 95. My first mac was a performa 6400CDS that was left for broken and I fixed it (with the help of my boss at the time) and it was my introduction to the Mac platform. The first PC I ever built was a celeronA 300 and I still have it and it still boots!

Now at home I use the following

Macbook Pro
HP nc4200 laptop
custom built PC (amd 3500+, 2gig of ram, ATI 9800 pro)
G4 dual 500 - my test machine
G4 MDD - my work horse machine
G5 - Dual 2.5s - my home server

at work I have
new intel mac mini
Macbook pro (it travels with me home and work, i only have one)
G5 - my netboot server i image with in my office
iMac - C2D 17" last generation