19 years ago, I dropped $2,840 AUD on a Dell laptop with 12.1" screen, Core 2 Duo, and 2GB RAM - that's about $4,500 today! https://stealthpuppy.com/the-joy-of-a-new-laptop/ Picked up a new MacBook Air M5 today with a 15" screen and 24GB RAM for $2,499 AUD. Hard to wrap my head around

Oh man that was a great laptop, really portable with a GPU and a Core 2 Duo. Was hard to beat at the time.

I just picked up a laptop around $2800 with an intel 275hx and a RTX5090 (24GB VRAM), 64GB of RAM. Runs great but I'm taken back to a masonry apprenticeship during my teenage years because I'm carrying around a brick. 🫠