Comment by AlexandrB
4 months ago
This is very optimistic. I see a future where high hardware prices push more and more stuff to the cloud and consumer hardware becomes largely a thin client. Soon doing anything with a computer will require an internet connection because the "local" portion of software will be an electron UI that makes API calls to a server somewhere to do any "serious" work.
I have a T430 that came out 14 years ago that does "serious" work for me. For almost everyone the computers they use are wildly over speced for what they use it for.
My 2nd hand ~$200 (minus a 256gb SSD upgrade) T400 was the best laptop I've ever had. Comfy everything, best laptop keyboard I've ever had, not worrying about dropping it on concrete from 2 meters (on the big extended battery, no less). Coil whine when switching p-states, no IPS, that's about it.
Utilitarian laptops need to come back yesterday.
Don’t worry - the cycle will reverse again at some point and we’ll go back to more powerful local machines.
Why do you expect it would be cyclical when the power capture would be extremely valuable to the main players?
And those main players will just be outcompeted. I'm sure DEC wasn't anticipating the PC revolution to take hold so quickly.
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Yup. We're going back to time sharing for the majority of people. The terminal will be their dumb phone.
No not going back to a mainframe computing…