Well, new to me, at least.

When I started building computers at MicroNet, there was no Pentium 4 or Athlon. We hadn't even passed the 1GHz "barrier" at that point. 500MHz was considered ridiculously fast, and 100MHz RAM was the fastest available. Remember AT power supplies? Yeah, I zapped myself on two of them.

Now, my wife has a faster mobile phone in her purse. My own phone handles 1GHz and 1GB of RAM better than the original 1GHz Pentium III.

The machine on my desk is now a quad-core with 8GB of RAM and a ton of hard disk space; even the servers I worked on at that point had at most two processors. My video card has more RAM than most of the computers I built in my first few years at MicroNet. And you know what? I actually use the power, and I notice the difference between this machine and my previous workstation (dual-core with 6GB of RAM).

We've come a long way in the 5 years since I left, that's for sure.