What computer upgrade has made you go WOW?

GeForce 4 4400 to Radeon 9700
GeForce 7600GT SLI to GeForce 8800GTX
Getting a laptop with a top of the range 256GB SSD = :eek:

56K - 512KB
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Haha, that too. Now even 2mb angers me :p So slooooow to download anything.
 
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BluZiff said:
Was it a "WOW thats ****" moment as I cant see how wow could be used in any other context.

Mine would be 15" - 20" widescreen monitor, my mbp and the 56k dialup to 512k cable.
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Nope, completely the opposite. Was just a much better OS than XP.

Unlike so many people I didn't base my reactions on the media and I had a PC that actually worked...;)

I never understood why so many people don't like Vista, I've never had a problem with it, neither has anyone I know and after having used Windows 7 it is slightly better but not a massive leap. Just goes to show what marketing does! ;)
 
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Easily 56k to DSL speeds

Although I was quite wowed by the Xbox 360 pad plugging into the PC and just working perfectly.

DMC4 on PC, with a 360 pad. First time I've felt a PC action\fighting game feel so natural. Rather than the tagged on feeling you get with pads quite often
 
Putting a 40Mb hard drive in my first PC, an Amstrad that had not one but two floppy
drives but no hdd. It cost a fortune (it was about 1989 I think) but then I had a PC I could actually use!
 
Im with Amp34 on this one....

Only real WOW was from XP - Vista a few years back.

Never had a single problem with Vista on both PCs in the house running Vista Ultimate 64, and after having used Windows 7 on a number of machines - I honestly can't see what is so good about it - or what was the point in MS bringing it out (Is this the best all those software engineers could come up with after 3 years work)

Seriously - what makes it so better over Vista to merit an upgrade ? It's just Vista SP2. And don't even start me about the redesigned taskbar supposed to be more user friendly and efficient - why change something as simple as moving a shorcut and dropping it there... and imagine how complicated it is for a pensioner to grasp the complexities of the new media player or the redesinged control panel that just overcomplicates the whole process of system changes - it takes an age just to find what you need.

It even boots slower on one of the new netbooks we have. And one of the things I would have used a lot was the Calendar which was simple and well laid out. This has now been permanantly removed - only for it to be replaced by a bloated suite of rubbish apps called windows Live that just won't go away.
 
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Going from a 20" viewsonic vx2025 lcd to a 24" benq fp241w, the desktop space was quite a difference. And games look fantastic at 1920x1200.
 
x700 pro to 6800gt
going from a 17" monitor to a nice 22" widescreen
pentium 3 to pentium d
coming off dial up
 
Going from an old ass P2 windows 98 pc with 64mb of ram (Which for some reason had a 32mb video card too). To a P4 xp machine with 1gb of ram.
Having a pc where it didn't crash every time you tried to open up more than one thing in internet explorer was a godsend, or you could have just msn messenger or just internet explorer open, christ knows why it had a decent graphics card for the day, you couldn't open a game on it if you'd tried.

Dialup to broadband, that was even better, the amount of porn I downloaded that day is indescribable.

After that to be honest every upgrade after has just been, wow thats much better, but thats what I expected.
 
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