Linux Magazine: Deja Vu

“Last month, I expressed boredom with the personal computer.
Beyond gigahertz, gigabytes, and wireless, I complained, personal
computers sold today look and feel a lot like those sold ten years
ago.

“Of course, that’s not entirely true. Over the past decade, PCs
have gotten cheaper while the list of standard features has
expanded enormously. Indeed, a veritable supercomputer can be
purchased readily for little more than a game console, and
previously high-end features have become ho-hum: clock speed, RAM,
CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD, polygons-per-second, and wireless, in roughly
that order…”

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