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> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.
Pretty amazing. I have a Core 2 laptop (more than one actually) and I'm still quite happy with their performance, even ten years after introduction. In 2006, I could not even imagine still using a computer from 1996.