new Mac Pro math

I'm still waiting on my Mac Pro to arrive. It got me thinking about my first PC.

It was a 486-40, with 4MB of Ram, and a 180meg hard drive.

My new computer is a 8 core 2.8ghz, 6GB of ram, 2 hard drives totalling 980gigs.

The CPU(s) are 560 times faster. Just one of them is 70 times faster.

There is 1500 times more memory

And 5444 times more space on the hard drives.

I'm an old man in computing- that one was bought in 1991 or 1992, I believe. It's really quite stunning how far its come.