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>The basic PC experience sucks As opposed to what... tablets? Or are you suggesting we leap forward to Computer Terminals right out of the Hitchhiker's Guide.

by gph 13y ago

>The basic PC experience sucks As opposed to what... tablets? Or are you suggesting we leap forward to Computer Terminals right out of the Hitchhiker's Guide. I couldn't read much further than that. Really bad article.

epochwolf 13y ago
Apple products perhaps? The computers people currently own?
- lelandbatey 13y ago
  Wait, what? I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one, and I say that as someone who fully bought into the dream (I used a MBP as my main machine for 2 years, and an iMac as a desktop for that same two years). After those two years where up, I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day. However, I guess I really don't understand why everyone's getting so uptight about. What we're seeing is not everyone in the world suddenly making a change to mobile for no discernible reason. It's not as though suddenly the winds changed and now PC is mysteriously dying. No, what happened is what always happens: someone made a better tool for the mass market to do what they want to do, which is to consume content and be entertained. Magic wireless Netflix screens that fit in their pockets are just better at that than PC's are and there's nothing wrong with that. It's evolution, and even as a PC enthusiast and power user, I'm more than glad to see people better able to do what they enjoy. That's not to say I'll be giving up my hand picked keyboard, large screen, and heavy tower, but I'm not to worried. There's always going to be money in serving the needs of people who get work done on computers, even if it's not quite as much money as it used to be.
  - Samuel_Michon 13y ago
    > I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one That comes across like you do think it is better, if maybe not by a lot. But then you write the following: > I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day. I don’t understand. You hated your Macs so much that you bought 2 new computers? If it was just OS X that you hated, you could’ve simply kept the Macs and ran a different OS. So what was it about the hardware that you disliked so much?
    - lelandbatey 13y ago
      Well, after two years it was just time to upgrade and I decided not to renew with OS X. I've gone back to a Windows/Linux workflow and I really enjoy it.
      - Samuel_Michon 13y ago
        To each their own, but that really didn’t answer any of my questions.
  - tetha 13y ago
    I'm still hoping that moving the consumers to consumer-oriented devices opens up possibilities to make the unfriendly platform (the desktop PC) more poweruser and developer-friendly.
wvenable 13y ago
I just recently purchased an Ultrabook; it was on sale and it was great deal. It had what I wanted: super thin, long battery life, and most importantly a high-res display. But just the other day I was annoyed with the fan running while I wasn't doing anything intensive. So I checked my power settings and was surprised that the Min processor speed on battery was set to 100% and the cooling policy set to active. So I changed it. Then a few minutes later I checked it again and it was back to 100%/active. I finally started doing some Googling and found out the f'ing track pad driver was the cause of those power settings getting reset! Several driver updates and a BIOS update and the machine is where it should have been to start with. I can only imagine how many people out there have this exact machine, which is chock full of Intel's best frequency stepping and power management technology, and it's all completely disabled.

by gph 13y ago

epochwolf 13y ago

Apple products perhaps? The computers people currently own?

lelandbatey 13y ago
Wait, what? I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one, and I say that as someone who fully bought into the dream (I used a MBP as my main machine for 2 years, and an iMac as a desktop for that same two years). After those two years where up, I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day. However, I guess I really don't understand why everyone's getting so uptight about. What we're seeing is not everyone in the world suddenly making a change to mobile for no discernible reason. It's not as though suddenly the winds changed and now PC is mysteriously dying. No, what happened is what always happens: someone made a better tool for the mass market to do what they want to do, which is to consume content and be entertained. Magic wireless Netflix screens that fit in their pockets are just better at that than PC's are and there's nothing wrong with that. It's evolution, and even as a PC enthusiast and power user, I'm more than glad to see people better able to do what they enjoy. That's not to say I'll be giving up my hand picked keyboard, large screen, and heavy tower, but I'm not to worried. There's always going to be money in serving the needs of people who get work done on computers, even if it's not quite as much money as it used to be.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago
  > I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one That comes across like you do think it is better, if maybe not by a lot. But then you write the following: > I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day. I don’t understand. You hated your Macs so much that you bought 2 new computers? If it was just OS X that you hated, you could’ve simply kept the Macs and ran a different OS. So what was it about the hardware that you disliked so much?
  - lelandbatey 13y ago
    Well, after two years it was just time to upgrade and I decided not to renew with OS X. I've gone back to a Windows/Linux workflow and I really enjoy it.
    - Samuel_Michon 13y ago
      To each their own, but that really didn’t answer any of my questions.
- tetha 13y ago
  I'm still hoping that moving the consumers to consumer-oriented devices opens up possibilities to make the unfriendly platform (the desktop PC) more poweruser and developer-friendly.

wvenable 13y ago

I just recently purchased an Ultrabook; it was on sale and it was great deal. It had what I wanted: super thin, long battery life, and most importantly a high-res display. But just the other day I was annoyed with the fan running while I wasn't doing anything intensive. So I checked my power settings and was surprised that the Min processor speed on battery was set to 100% and the cooling policy set to active. So I changed it. Then a few minutes later I checked it again and it was back to 100%/active. I finally started doing some Googling and found out the f'ing track pad driver was the cause of those power settings getting reset! Several driver updates and a BIOS update and the machine is where it should have been to start with. I can only imagine how many people out there have this exact machine, which is chock full of Intel's best frequency stepping and power management technology, and it's all completely disabled.