Because we grew up with HP, Compaq, Gateway, Dell, Alienware, IBM, and a hundred others "just shipping" a truckload of PC models all the time without 2-year mar

Because we grew up with HP, Compaq, Gateway, Dell, Alienware, IBM, and a hundred others "just shipping" a truckload of PC models all the time without 2-year marketing cycles. Seemed like every week you would get a new PC magazine showing a bunch of new builds with better specs and lower prices than the previous week that you could order immediately. This brave new world of embedded devices sucks.