Cover of the October 2001 issue of PC World
PC World was one of the most popular PC specific magazines for decades. The magazine began life in March 1983 and the last issue was published a little over 30 years later in 2013. It was still going strong in 2001 and the October 2001 issue includes:
Cover Story
- PC Deals: You Better Shop Around - A guide to the best and worst places to buy a PC both in store and online. Ranked highest in this list is Gateway Country.
Features
- CD-RW ASAP - A test of 30 of the latest CD burners. The latest generations burn at speeds of up to 24x whereas the previous generation were limited to 8x. Coming in at the top of the list is the Yamaha LightSpeed CRW2200EZ.
- Better Burning - A look at five of the most popular CD burning software packages including Ahead Nero Burning ROM 5.5, NTI CD-Maker Professional Edition, Oak Technology SimpliCD 1.0, Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum, and Stomp Click'N Burn Pro 2.0.
- Easy Steps to a Great Site - Tips, tricks, and tools to help you create a home page.
Table of Contents from the October 2001 issue of PC World
Top 100
- Top 10 Power PCs - At the top of this list is the Dell OptiPlex GX400 featuring a P4-1400 CPU and 256MB of RDRAM for $2245. In addition to Pentium 4 systems, there were also several Athlon 1400 systems in this list.
- Top 10 Value PCs - The top system in this list is a Dell OptiPlex GX150 featuring a 933 MHz Pentium III for $1400. There is at least one Duron based system in this list. The first PC I ever built myself had a Duron processor.
- Top 10 Graphic Boards - The top graphics card this month is the CardExert GeForce2 MX TwinView/Vivo Golden Sample for $159.
- Top 10 Digital Cameras - The best digital camera according to PC World was the Nikon Coolpix 995, a 3.34 megapixel camera for $899.
Table of Contents from the October 2001 issue of PC World (continued)
Departments
- Up Front - A look at the magazine's new star rating system.
- Letters - Letters from readers about product activation, license agreements, copy protection, flat panel displays, and more.
- Consumer Watch - Choosing an e-payment service, problems with a refurbished PC, and more.
- Web Savvy - A look at Upromise, a free online service to help you save for college.
News & Trends
- XP's Extras - Microsoft continues its trend of adding features to the OS that once were only available via third party utilities.
- Pentium 4 Races to 2 GHz - The Pentium 4 catches up to the Athlon but at a price premium.
- Focus on the Big Pixels - A look at new 4 and 5 megapixel cameras.
Here's How
- Internet Tips - Tips to stop browser pop-ups, capture shockwave animations for offline viewing, and improving AOL's graphics.
- Step-By-Step - A guide to creating your first website including using web page editors like Microsoft FrontPage and Netscape Composer, getting a host for your web site, and obtaining and using a basic FTP client.
- Hardware Tips - A look at upgrading CPUs in Socket 5, Socket 7, Socket 8, Slot 1, Socket 370, Slot A, and Socket A based systems.
Back cover of the October 2001 issue of PC World
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Excellent post! Thinking about paying $2995 for 128 MB of RAM would be insane! These technological advancements are amazing, and it really wasn't that long ago, just over 20 years ago.
Tech seemed to move a lot faster then. Today, you can still do most tasks with a 10 year old PC. But 10 years before 2001 you were probably using DOS most of the time or still using you old Commodore 64 like me.
Wow, I can't imagine using a 10-year-old PC to do what I'm doing right now!
Lol, well you arent going to doing anything local with AI or play the latest games for instance but surfing the web, watching videos, typical office software, erc. All work just fine. I mean an i7-6700K and nvidia GTX 1080 are still fairly capable. Thats 10 year old hardware.
That's absolutely true, what you're saying. You could even play quite a few games with those specs.
Those were the days! That was back when you could give your tower a swift kick from the side of your foot to get it to stop acting up. Now they break if you look at them wrong. !LOL
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This really brings back a whole lot of memory days. Technology has really advanced and way cheaper than then. What a time to be alive.
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Remind me to the start of the eMachines.