You seriously underestimate the ability of OS manufacturers (one in particular) to add wasted cycles, don't you? :D Agreed though, that for most users the current trend of "Oh look! Another toolbar!" is a pretty pathetic waste of the hardware. If we've got cycles to spare, they should be used for, oh, I dunno... constantly making incremental backups? Observing work patterns and creating live workspaces? Something *useful*?
Actually, I suspect that it will level off, in that gaming consoles have seriously intruded into the traditional high-end PC gaming realm, and it's that high-end gamer niche market that has driven a lot of the hardware churn for the past decade. As those folks are split between the insane-in-the-game PC group and the consolers, that niche is going to get even smaller. Heck, it's been proportionally shrinking for a while now, but I think it will accelerate.
Which means... who's left to drive HW needs? What segment of the general computing population will break out to be the next big group of whiners? :)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-23 09:23 pm (UTC)You seriously underestimate the ability of OS manufacturers (one in particular) to add wasted cycles, don't you? :D Agreed though, that for most users the current trend of "Oh look! Another toolbar!" is a pretty pathetic waste of the hardware. If we've got cycles to spare, they should be used for, oh, I dunno... constantly making incremental backups? Observing work patterns and creating live workspaces? Something *useful*?
Actually, I suspect that it will level off, in that gaming consoles have seriously intruded into the traditional high-end PC gaming realm, and it's that high-end gamer niche market that has driven a lot of the hardware churn for the past decade. As those folks are split between the insane-in-the-game PC group and the consolers, that niche is going to get even smaller. Heck, it's been proportionally shrinking for a while now, but I think it will accelerate.
Which means... who's left to drive HW needs? What segment of the general computing population will break out to be the next big group of whiners? :)