http://michaelgracie.com/2006/07/12/the-internet-is-boring/ Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:58:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://michaelgracie.com/2006/07/12/the-internet-is-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Michael Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:04:04 +0000 http://www.michaelgracie.com/?p=330#comment-39 <p>Agreed. Which is why I like snazzy, tweakable operating systems (Linux) and simplistic, useful web software (37 Signals really gets that right). Who cares about the hardware, although quality is always a concern (I've had a Powerbook for 18 months without a hitch). Still, processor speed and such are much less of a concern when you have 6mb download speeds (Comcast). I think Mark's question is...what the hell to do with it?</p> Agreed. Which is why I like snazzy, tweakable operating systems (Linux) and simplistic, useful web software (37 Signals really gets that right). Who cares about the hardware, although quality is always a concern (I’ve had a Powerbook for 18 months without a hitch). Still, processor speed and such are much less of a concern when you have 6mb download speeds (Comcast). I think Mark’s question is…what the hell to do with it?

]]> http://michaelgracie.com/2006/07/12/the-internet-is-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-38 jcm Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:25:31 +0000 http://www.michaelgracie.com/?p=330#comment-38 Along the same lines...I was thinking that the PC market seems to be in transition. How's that for obvious? Serieously though, there was a time when PCs did nothing but decline in price and offer up new features. Now, while manufacturers are busy churning out increasingly less expensive notebooks, there's also a trend toward more expensive "juiced up" systems, a la Dell's recent purchase of AlienWare and focus on "high end" PCs. Major new features? They're hard to find. Yawn. It makes me wonder if the PC business is at a point where it will no longer feature that declining price point. Along the same lines…I was thinking that the PC market seems to be in transition. How’s that for obvious? Serieously though, there was a time when PCs did nothing but decline in price and offer up new features. Now, while manufacturers are busy churning out increasingly less expensive notebooks, there’s also a trend toward more expensive “juiced up” systems, a la Dell’s recent purchase of AlienWare and focus on “high end” PCs. Major new features? They’re hard to find. Yawn. It makes me wonder if the PC business is at a point where it will no longer feature that declining price point.

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