Last piece of Tech that made you go "WOW!!"?

For me it has to be:

1.the first I phone it did everything I wanted and more an tbh changed my life a bit with having everything to hand.

2. The mega cd I loved this was a huge boost in performance (well I thought so) loved how it just clicked into your mega drive like a huge bolt on loved it!

3. Most recently my new pc build but not only that realising how much I loved having a pc all those years ago and how much I love it now all the tinkering modification upgrading and beautiful graphics (the difference from console especially with skyrim is tremendous I stop on a lot of occasions just to take it in) so glad I came back and sold my consoles.
 
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My first iphone when it was released and my first macbook pro. Windows laptops where so fisherprice compared to it.
Graphics cards... my 9700pro and my 4870x2 where awesome.

Also my first professional camera lens, nikon 70-200 f2.8
 
I think maybe a lot of these posts relate to old kit is due to the Internet. Now before you buy something you read reviews and watch YouTube videos so ou know exactly what your getting before you even buy it.
As for SSD and headphones these are things that can be difficult to demonstrate over the Internet and as such the "improvement" is more notable
 
My last wow was my hazro 2560x1440 res kills 1080 every day of the week

Before that SSD and before that i7 920 D0 so much power to give :eek:
 
Gtx 480 from Gt 120 was pretty astonishing, but not quite WOW changing. It could do quite a bit, but just didn't knock me out too much.
SSD wasn't fantastic upgrade. It was quick, and it was nice, but still perhaps more of a novelty.
Xonar D2 and NS1000s as a pair were quite impressive. But again, they didn't blow me away.

All of the above are pretty big upgrades, but they didn't knock me out. I noticed when I went back to using other computers that they were awful, and listening to music elsewhere for example, but yeah they didn't knock me out.

The two things that truly blew me away technology wise are non-hardware.
HTC Desire was pretty big step, but I think any smartphone would have been. Syncing in emails and everything was just awesome.
iPad 2 absolutely blew me away as well. I don't know what I did without it xD

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mrgubby said:
The only proper WOW I can think of is when I first ran quake on my 3dfx card, everything else has been incremental improvements .
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This is the biggest defining moment in terms of tech, software>hardware acceleration was the biggest step.

Like when I went from dial up to 512K broadband.
 
A lot of the things for me that should be "wow's" aren't because they 'just work'. The cheap TP_Link gigabit switch I have, that is outstanding for the price, but just sits quietly doing its thing. My graphics card just works. My SB setup just works and works well.

Probably my biggest wow of late was my 26" Iiyama monitor I bougtht a few years ago. Whilst not a wow, and not top of the range, having it has been an absolute pleasure :-)
 
Forgot about going from 17" to 22" monitor! Best upgrade ever. Way more satisfying than any CPU or GPU upgrade has been - better even than SSD. Improves everything you do on your PC.

Only thing is, you get used to it really easily :p Fed up with it after 5 years. My head's telling me to go for a good 24", but the rest of me wants a 27".
 
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can only think of one real WOW moment.


a pair of voodoo 2 3dfx cards in SLI dropped into my rig back in the 90's
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I felt the same with my 2 x 12mb voodoo SLI combo, then later saw Soul Calibre on the Dreamcast which blew me away even more and traded them in with other stuff for a Japanese Dreamcast and Soul Calibre. :D
 
ZYxel nsa310 nas box for £30! - just for the price and everything it can do.
HTC Desire HD/ Android OS - because its so good i hate it, its able to do so much its my go-to gadget.
Borderlands - just for its underlying coolness.
Bulletstorm - for the scale of some of the scenes - shame everything else sucked.
HL/HL2 - story telling
TF2 - the funny one liners!
the stand/hinge/swivel thing on my HP monitor - I have a better samsung screen now but god the HP stand was amazing.
Linux - back in 2005 when i first dabbled just because of what you got for free
and recently with ubuntu/mint because they are so polished if it wasnt for directx i could happily live with them.
oracles virtualbox - because why dual boot when you can run operating systems like programs.
Athlon 2500+ barton - because it overclocked so easily and ran for 7 years like it too where it has now retired.
Akasa Vortexx Neo - because it was silent, cool and cheap and made the stock cooler seem like a hairdryer due to noise and heat.
Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface - because £10 just shouldn't buy a mouse mat that big and that good.
SSD's.
 
Moving from my P4 3Ghz to an oc'ed 3.15ghz e6300.

That was around 6 years ago now though! More recently I think from my trusty audigy 2 and cheap 7.1 speaker system to an Asus D2 soundcard and AEGO speakers. All of a sudden sounds became crystal clear.
 
going for a crappy laptop with in built gfx to a gaming pc built to my own spec.

it was like a whole new world.

i could only play WoW on lowest with 7FPS on a good day, now i play on max with 60+ FPS.

its a game changer for me.

Also going from 56k to 256 adsl no more waiting 5mins for a pic of some boobs to load haha
 
Pc wise, definitely my SSD, Corsair Force 3 series.

Windows has never been the same, I'm the type who liked doing a gazillion things at once and have about 20+ apps that boot along with windows and having no more ''lockups'' due to the hdd being overloaded is great. Windows still boots very quickly despite loading a lot of crap on startup and is immediately usable and nippy from the moment the desktop is visible, unlike on the hdd where I had to wait for the app or browser to start for ages because windows is still loading.

I can't see how one would not be amazed with an SSD unless having an extremely clean pc, reinstalling every couple of months, not doing many things at once, etc... It's absolutely amazing if you have an older windows install (clone hdd to ssd for proper comparison). I tried multiple configurations and q6700+6gb+SSD is definitely faster to use than i7-12gb-7200 rpm conventional hdd. Yes for games the i7 pc is quicker but for normal home use and startup time, ssd speed over more ram and cpu power anytime.

GPU wise: Going from Fx5500 (was actually a downgrade from my previous Ti4200 I guess) to 6600GT.

CPU wise: Upgrading my p4 2.4 ghz into a 3.0ghz and clocking it to 3.9 ghz :).


Really amazed? The moment I upgraded my el cheapo Trust 5.1 set I bought for 35 euros to logitech Z5500's.

The moment I bought nice in-ear headphones ( well ''nice'' is relative, I bought a Goldring set for 40 euro's or so as opposed to cheap crap.).

I guess my car is also ''tech'', the moment I test drove my first V6, it sounded just so much nicer than that 4 cylinder crap I was used to hearing and amazed at the acceleration ( felt much nicer despite not being THAT much faster).

As much as I like gadgets and stuff, I wasn't that hugely amazed when going from k700i to a k750i to a Nokia N97, and then to a Samsung Galaxy s2 after that, I expected more. I was more amazed of my first mobile phone. (which was the K700i.)

Even recently going from 7-9 mb ADSL to 120 mb internet was a bit ''meh'', I actually downgraded to 40 mb in March to save me 2 tenners per month as while 120 mb is nice, 40 is enough and not worth 18 euro's extra per month imo.
I was amazed when going from 128k ISDN to 512k ADSL though back in 2000 or 2001 iirc, and all the following free speed upgrades every couple of years (until I reached the max I could get over ADSL on my address).

Loved my Gameboy color when I got it, absolutely hooked on that thing, ironically Pokemon too :p, played it for 12 hours straight iirc.



Tbh, tech these days doesn't wow me any more as it used to, you need to spend more and more for smaller improvements...
In the old days I used to spend a couple of tenners or 100 at most on something and absolutely amazed with it.
These days I throw hundreds at my hobbies: Audio, PC, gadgets, etc... And it's all a bit ''meh'', is that it ?
 
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