It was $450 at Micro Center, of course I bought it
32GB DDR4 SODIMM RAM (it originally came with 8GB!)
512GB Micron NVMe M.2 SSD (anything that's at least 320GB is good enough for me)
Samsung 870 EVO 1TB HDD (added by me)
Intel 12th-gen i5-12450H
nVidia Geforce RTX 2050 (I only got it because I wanted to run Blender and Godot on it, too)
Sub-par battery life (I think that's because this is a gaming laptop with a discrete GPU)
iMac Early-2008 (ATI Radeon 2400XT, 20-inch) (2022-2024) :: $1,799 in 2008, now $100 depending on where you get it
Hand-me-down
This is why I don't like Apple
4GB DDR2 SODIMM RAM (originally came with 1GB) (I know, it's not a lot either way)
320GB HDD
Intel Core 2 Duo E8135
AMD ATI Radeon 2400XT (yes ATI was still a thing)
Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527 (2022-2024) :: $999 (it was probably good back then), now worth... I kid you not... $99.99 on an eBay listing with everything installed.
Hand-me-down
Dim screen that only worked when it felt like it
Intel Pentium T2080
Intel 943GML Graphics (at least it ran Half-Life 1 OK)
2GB DDR2 SODIMM RAM (originally came with 1GB) (Maxxed out)
120GB HDD (although I swapped it out a couple of times)
Had to plug it in at all times. It was that bad
Currently resides in a landfill (should've given it to Goodwill)
Lenovo 500e 2nd-gen Chromebook (2020-2024) :: $249.99 in 2019, now worth $89.95 on Amazon
Crappy school laptop that I couldn't help but edit this website with
8GB Soldered SODIMM RAM
64GB eMMC (SSDs are better)
Intel Celeron N4120
Intel UHD Graphics 600
Best battery life
HP 20-c225t (2017-2022) :: $599.99 (at least from what I've heard) in 2017, now worth... I can't find it, everything about this thing is gone. Even the Wayback Machine didn't help.
Baby's first computer
8GB DDR3L SODIMM RAM
AMD E-Series E2-7110
Radeon R2 Graphics
Crappy even for 2017. If I were an AAA gamer back then I'd be mad :) This was meant for families, anyway. At least it ran Garry's Mod. And Half-Life. And Scribblenauts. And you get the point, it ran what I wanted to run on it
1TB HDD
Accessories
Tonor TC-777 (2020-, although I don't use it much because I don't enjoy voice acting)
Huion HS64 (2020-2021)
Wacom Intuos S (2021-2022, 2023-)
Huion H610 Pro V2 (2022-2023) (its USB port broke :()
Bootleg Apple Magic Mouse (2024-)
Software
Adobe Animate (2020-) (Physical copy of version 8 obtained in 2022) (do not buy Adobe Animate CC, Adobe sucks now. Just use older versions with the Macromedia Flash branding, don't get a keygen and never, ever mention its legality on Adobe's forums. You should be good to go from there.)
Adobe Photoshop CS4 (2021-)
Adobe Illustrator CS4 (2024-)
Blender (2018-, though I'm still an amateur and I'll likely just video edit with it)
Wick Editor (2020-2024) (they haven't updated it since 2021, use at your own risk)
OpenToonz (2022) It's a little buggy, so I haven't used it much since.
Google Chrome (2017-2022 on anything that isn't a Chromebook I'm essentially forced to on a Chromebook) (no I am not linking it, you're probably using it already. have fun having your data sold to advertisers)
