John Robb says:
Damn. I have 95% of my PC’s processer available at any given moment. In a year that will probably be 98%, in three years it will be 99%. This model of the Internet is so messed up. The fact that over 90% of the computing horsepower on the Internet sits idle at any given moment is insane (in fact, 98% of my DSL connection is dead too). It is going to change. It has to change….Exactly. This one of the main reasons I don’t think I want to run a “LiveJournal done right, according to me” site. I’d rather help build a decentralized mutant spawn of LJ, Radio, Gnutella, JXTA, and other things I’ve yet to realize I should be looking at. I really need to get some time this Winter to research, think, write, and tinker.
And the thing John says about everyone converting to notebooks is dead on for me. I haven’t touched my desktop in ages. My iBook is becoming more and more my primary computing device. When I first got it, I thought it would be a satellite. Instead, all my other computers have become peripherals for it – extra storage, little daemon processes, all serving me via my laptop. Now I just need an excuse to go get myself a ?TiBook :)
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Until laptop keyboards improve (and improve vastly) I won’t be getting rid of my desktop unit any time soon. I have two laptops (only one of which has a halfway decent keyboard but alas, that style of keyboard is no longer being used on laptops) that I rarely use, and two desktop machines I use all the time.
Guess that makes me the exception rather than the rule.
-spc (I use only IBM AT or PS/2 keyboards—all others aren’t worth the money)
deal on for me too… my iBook is now my primary machine, and I’m not looking to buy any more desktops in the future… maybe a PowerBook or two, but no more desktops… not with wireless available so much.
I’m another desktop user, laptops cost quite a bit more than desktops, I don’t have a wireless network, or even high-speed access (at home anyway…) That aside, I did just get a used PowerBook G3, though it’s quite a bit older/slower than my desktop G4, it actually will be a satellite, if I can get OS X working properly on it.