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I'm going to be contrarian and take the other side of the argument. I love PCs. I love that you can buy a bunch of parts and cobble something together which h

I'm going to be contrarian and take the other side of the argument. I love PCs. I love that you can buy a bunch of parts and cobble something together which has a ridiculous amount of processing power. I love that you can buy a GPU which can render a mind numbing amount of quadrilaterals on the screen simultaneously. I love that there is a plethora of tools which you can quickly write programs which can do interesting and useful things. I actually think we take PCs too much for granted. They're absolutely amazing devices. EDIT: spelling

khitchdee 13y ago
Decades of concerted optimization by a highly distributed industry driven by the goal of adding value for the end user through economies of scale. The focus on scale has resulted in a system with amazing complexity available for peanuts (if you look at its engineering complexity).