I wonder if two significant events are coming together to make this happen: 1) Do consumers/IT workers need to buy entirely new computers today as frequently a

I wonder if two significant events are coming together to make this happen: 1) Do consumers/IT workers need to buy entirely new computers today as frequently as they did 10 years ago? I don't think so. I'm running my dev rig on a machine I built in 2008 - quad core Intel Core Duo w/ 8GB RAM on 64-bit Win2k8R2 OS - and it's blazing still today. I'm running VMs, SharePoint, SQL Server all in the background and still it's a great box. Prior to that I was spending $2k every two years probably to keep up. My wife's PC is the same - it's just a regular box we bought at MicroCenter, I think, in 2009. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD dual core (can't recall). It's super fast. I see no reason to upgrade. She runs Photoshop and MS Office mainly and both are super, super fast. 2) The one thing that made the biggest impact for our computers was to make the OS run on SSDs. Prior to doing that, we were both frustrated. So combine (a) whether Moore's Law is applicable today, and (b) SSD performance and availability, and it makes me wonder just how much this will impact not only Dell but other companies (HP, etc). Hell, that makes me wonder: are we spending money on iPads for fun b/c we have extra money that we were going to spend on upgrading computers but now don't have to? Now I'm reaching...