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The PC is dead. Long live the cloud PC
- JohnFen 7y agoThe PC will probably never die. Become a niche product someday? Perhaps. I would never use use cloud-based "PCs" for my personal stuff under any circumstances that I can think of. The overall security implications of it are beyond my ability to tolerate. If the day actually comes that I can't buy PCs anymore, I'll have to start building them myself.
- CrankyBear 7y agoIt may come to that. It's already half-way there for gaming PCs, which have become a niche on to themselves.
- JohnFen 7y agoYes. I bought a very nice gaming rig for my daughter a few months ago. It's a great custom-built machine, but expensive (by today's standards -- it's still cheaper, adjusted for inflation, than average PCs in the '90s). Clearly, these are niche products. But I'm shopping for a general purpose tower to replace the laptop that is currently my primary machine. For half the price of that gaming rig, I can get a machine that is even gruntier (but lacks the things gamers want, such as a high-end video card).