There were far, far better games on the market in 1998 than Doom (Half-Life, anybody?). And that Motorola cell phone is waay pre-1998, as well. At that point, they looked a lot more like this - http://www.motorola.com/mot/image/15/15326_MotImage.jpg
Some of that stuff was funny, but why pad the list?
If I remember correctly, the gaming / graphics wars started to heat up around '96, with the Nvidia / Rendition / 3dfx wars. I remember when games used to have Glide support separate from Direct3D / OpenGL. Interesting that ATI, who is Nvidia's only competition now, was really a non-player during all of the 90's.
ATI did embedded graphics throughout the 90s though, right? It's interesting that they were able to step up from there to gaming/professional graphics.
Well, they also made the Rage and FireGL gaming / workstation 3d cards, they just weren't very good. The FireGL did a little better because there wasn't as much competition in the professional graphics world, really just the Quadro and, to a lesser extent, Matrox's cards. Wow... until I just wrote that, I had completely forgotten that Matrox ever even existed.
I always thought that the one-piece-Mac looked stupid (including the original 68000 based). What happens if you want to upgrade the monitor? Or if you want to put CPU on the ground? Just seems like unnecessary miniaturization to me.
> What happens if you want to upgrade the monitor? Or if you want to put CPU on the ground?
If you have it in your kitchen? If you give it to your ten-year-old daughter? I think that's where the majority of them ended up (also, I can recall the school systems in my area [of British Columbia] just getting iMacs as I was graduating). Think about places you'd use a laptop now, but don't really need to move it around all that much, because you have a single, set desk configuration.
Some of that stuff was funny, but why pad the list?