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Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To
An anonymous reader writes "Flexbeta.net has an article which describes 5 great technological advancements in computing that just about every PC user wants." From the article: "Why has there been such a sudden lack in innovation as of late? Are we in a technological drought? I like to stick to my own diagnosis of the industry as being too concerned with keeping a steady cash flow over social experimentation with new products but then again that's just an opinion from a little guy."
Funny. Just today I was working with an iMac whose mouse stopped responding a few minutes after I started. (I was just web browsing; I was checking my mail at a friend's house.)
We played with it, checking connections and such, couldn't get it to work, and rebooted it. A hard reboot, since the mouse was dead and we didn't know any keyboard shortcut for shutting down. It worked fine after that.
I realize that this is anecdotal and proves squat. It's just coincidence that the first Mac I touch in ages immediately develops a problem that only a reboot could cure. It could be anything: a flaky printer cable, a rare Mac virus, a glitch in the memory.
Oh, one other thing: I have owned exactly one Mac in the last 10 years. A Powerbook 5300 CS. Many people tell me it was the worst thing Apple ever made.
So like I said, it's probably just coincidence, but I'm going to have to take your "there is no real reason to ever shut down a Mac" with a grain of salt.