Sunday Cute YouTuber
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A few weeks ago, in an episode of "Questions," I asked:
Whatever happened to the Dell Dude?
Although fictional, Steven the Dell Dude was arguably the first forerunner to the modern YouTuber. Hence we pay tribute to him on this last Sunday before Christmas:
To put this Fall 2000 commercial into perspective: The Pentium III processor was decommissioned in 2003; today $849 will (almost) buy you a Dell desktop with Intel Core2 2.4GHz processor; 3GB RAM and 320GB hard drive (no monitor), or a 17" laptop with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor with 1GB RAM and a 120GB hard drive. (On the other hand, both examples include Vista, so Steven's package may be the better deal after all.)
Although fictional, Steven the Dell Dude was arguably the first forerunner to the modern YouTuber. Hence we pay tribute to him on this last Sunday before Christmas:
To put this Fall 2000 commercial into perspective: The Pentium III processor was decommissioned in 2003; today $849 will (almost) buy you a Dell desktop with Intel Core2 2.4GHz processor; 3GB RAM and 320GB hard drive (no monitor), or a 17" laptop with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor with 1GB RAM and a 120GB hard drive. (On the other hand, both examples include Vista, so Steven's package may be the better deal after all.)
Posted by Kip on
23 December 2007
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