Your PC is an amazing peace of kit, it’s amazing because no other computing platform is as versatile and no other platform is so open for innovation. You can buy hardware for it from thousands of vendors, you can hook it up to just about any display or input device and you can make it do just about anything. While maybe no longer being the latest buzzword, the combination of screen, mouse and keyboard, is still the best way to be productive, get a headshot or to create the next software wonder. Whatever cool mobile app or console game you think is the hot stuff, it was conceived on a PC. If we could only choose one computing platform it would have be the PC, for the simple fact that no other platform could exist without the PC.
What pisses me off is how bad PC manufacturers are at creating what people want these days: the perfect blend of HTPC/Gaming PC in the living room. Go around, people are really waiting on that machine to show up. No manufacturer did it. All could (Apple still hasn’t because they hate gaming, you can tell). Lenovo Dell Asus Samsung still see the market as very distinct between desktop, laptop and non-general-uses devices. Fools (but yes I know, money)! It’s only computers now. We hook them up everywhere. We do everything on them. Phones have 2 Gb of RAM. The size, form factor are nearly irrelevant.
It’s the real Personal Computer Era beyond the beige box. It’s the tech stabilization that we were waiting for. But we’re still missing one really core element. Let’s build that home device that will once and for all blend the old PC and the old console paradigms together.
You probably didn’t notice but we can do everything fanless now.
These are fanless machines that can be today more powerful than any current console, easily. It’s an important step because game developers financially, humanly can barely max out this generation. They can now focus on making games instead of needing more tech.
No more maintenance or planned obsolescence like we’re so used to with laptops and towers full of failing fans. Think 90s TV set or fridges. You buy one, it lasts up to the point where you want another one, not because it’s underpowered or broke but because the old one goes to the bedroom and the new one is for the living room.
These fanless machines, PCs yes there I said it, will provide peace of mind and choice for consumers and will fund a more homogenous ecosystem that will help game developers to stabilize their shit and stay away from too much vertical silo-ification of the business.
I’m out.
*drops the mic*