“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…”