nicketynick Wrote: > I guess I'm losing this argument, but consider how things such as cell > phones, Black Berries, Xbox, Playstation, iPod and Tivo are used today. > There is a whole generation growing up now that will use a PC at work, > and won't look at one outside of work. Heck, now that I have SB3, I > don't even go to the computer for the weather forecast, I just look at > my SB3!
I don't necessarily think you're losing the argument. :-) It's just that when "appliances" first came into being ~5 years ago and analysts predicted the demise of the PC, technology was different. Appliances back then were truly dumb devices. Today's "appliance" has almost as much computing power as a conventional PC and could only be called an appliance due to its OS or external connectivity. Take a look at the PocketPC. This is no organizer of yesteryear. As the gumstix shows, you can run Linux off that processor. Appliances as they were first pictured died off because their use was too limited while their cost was too high. WebTV could only browse the web and send/receive e-mail, yet it cost 1/2 (?) of what a computer did at the time. Totally impractical. So an appliance today is really a PC. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23496 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
