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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. So
by AlexandrB 4mo 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.
- mbreese 4mo agoDon’t worry - the cycle will reverse again at some point and we’ll go back to more powerful local machines.
- AlecSchueler 4mo agoWhy do you expect it would be cyclical when the power capture would be extremely valuable to the main players?
- linkregister 4mo agoAnd those main players will just be outcompeted. I'm sure DEC wasn't anticipating the PC revolution to take hold so quickly.
- AlecSchueler 3mo agoI'm not sure they were quite as entrenched or quite as big as Apple or Google are today.
- treis 4mo agoI 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.
- Lwerewolf 4mo agoMy 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.
- Danox 4mo agoNo not going back to a mainframe computing…
- techteach00 4mo agoYup. We're going back to time sharing for the majority of people. The terminal will be their dumb phone.