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"Good Enough" Computers Are the Future
An anonymous reader writes "Over on the PC World blog, Keir Thomas engages in some speculative thinking. Pretending to be writing from the year 2025, he describes a world of 'Good Enough computing,' wherein ultra-cheap PCs and notebooks (created to help end-users weather the 'Great Recession' of the early 21st century) are coupled to open source operating systems. This is possible because even the cheapest chips have all the power most people need nowadays. In what is effectively the present situation with netbooks writ large, he sees a future where Microsoft is priced out of the entire desktop operating system market and can't compete. It's a fun read that raises some interesting points."
The corporation narrowly fought off an antitrust judgment under the (first) Clinton and Bush administrations
I thought Obama was going to serve 5 terms as president, after the constitution was amended of course. Mrs. Clinton never gets her shot as President! Obama, will after all, turn the world into a utopia, and "good enough" will apply to all aspects of society, and we'll all smile and nod our heads in peaceful bliss.
Oh. [sigh] And I was hoping AC would tell me where I could get the TRON fanzines too. Probably just as well as I can't find his email address anyway...
Do you realise how slow these people's machines are and how unproductive they are?
You're just trying to flame the thread by talking crap, I'd hazard a guess you've never worked in support or even had anything to do with support. You've never been asked 100 times a day as to why a customer's computer, brand new, is so slow. Or why they can't run X app while Y app is running without the computer freezing. Because that's bullshit, 100% bullshit, never happens, as you'd have us believe.
Let me guess, you're someone loosely associated with IT who builds all their dimwit friends' computers, they know no better because all they use them for is solitaire and porn (which it can't handle if you try both at the same time). So you build them a piece of shit machine, never have to answer any questions, and say that this is a good plan of attack for new computing.
Sorry, but NO. Low power, low speed processing has come leaps and bounds over the last few years, to sit there and say that we could have done what we can today 12, or even 5 years ago is total bullshit.
There's more to a processor than just raw Mhz, if you don't understand this then you are just betraying your own ignorance.
Troll, flamebait or whatever, you're still an idiot.