Re: Kept going by PS4?
"The thing is, the desktop is almost dead except for high performance computers, and most computers are bottom of the barrel."
It's not dead, it's that the bloatware war has been won since the Intel Core CPU's were released.
We don't need to upgrade every 2 -3 years now (my existing Core-i7 930 PC was built in March 2010 and is still going strong) with today's multi-core CPU's, a decent graphics card an an SSD for a boot drive, there's no need to upgrade, unless you are so vain you must have the latest and greatest for e-penis reasons.
The mobile market is the same, Apple sold less phones last quarter, Samsung's been complaining about slow sales for a year now, all because they didn't learn from the PC world, went full steam ahead with octa core CPU's and 3GB+ RAM and now everything runs super smooth and super fast on phones that are 2 - 3 years old, so why bother upgrading for some slightly nicer looking photos and a slightly faster CPU/GPU?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
