Well, today a cheap gaming PC runs in circles around even the most advanced workstations of yesteryear. My cheap as chips consumer laptop easily accumulates an

Well, today a cheap gaming PC runs in circles around even the most advanced workstations of yesteryear. My cheap as chips consumer laptop easily accumulates an uptime of a month or more before I decide a kernel update would be a good idea and I have to reboot. Also, the computers in use by professionals today _are_ specialized. As a web developer, I don't need the expensive GPU(s) required by an AI researcher and thus my computer doesn't have one. If I was doing video editing I might have a different storage solution than my current SSD-only setup, etc. I think the downside of the demise of workstations is mainly a psychological one: we no longer have the ability to marvel at and dream about highly specialized computers offering a significantly different user experience than that of our ordinary home computers. A small text about this: https://datagubbe.se/coolcomp.html https://datagubbe.se/coolcomp.html