September 6 in history: the sunset era of floppy disks and the first gaming laptop with 1 GB of video memory

06 September 2017, 18:16 | Technologies
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On September 6, 2002, Samsung announced that it would no longer equip computers with floppy disk drives. On the one hand, it was timely and logical - in the courtyard of the 21st century. Slowly but surely in the life of ordinary users come recorded and rewritable CDs, and creeps up broadband Internet access. On the other hand, it turned out that Samsung comes to the throat of its own song, because this company was at that time the largest supplier of drives. Her only sales of floppikov reached 2.5 million. devices annually.

On September 6, 2006, the first 17-inch laptop with a gigabyte of video memory. Now this is no longer surprising, because sometimes even very inexpensive mobile video cards are equipped with 4 GB of graphics memory.

And Alienware Aurora m9700 had to acquire two adapters at once to gain a record gigabyte. As the graphics adapter was chosen NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS with 512 MB of internal memory. But this was not the only advantage of the gaming machine. For example, even then, its 17-inch display had a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, and the storage system could include just two hard drives of 320 GB each. However, the processor was not so impressive, as the manufacturer instead of the dual-core AMD Turion 64 X2 used AMD Turion 64.




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