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Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds? by userbinator on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:44PM (#10815635)
Why pay for a ridiculously powerful desktop that's idle 98% of the time?

Because you actually own the physical machine; some may disagree, especially the DRM crowd, but there's a big difference between having hardware that is and on your property and just having volatile control over a machine in some unknown location.

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Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds? by DanBC on Thursday December 31, 2015 @02:58PM (#10819339)
People used to buy DVD machines and DVDs, now they have Netflix and set top boxes.
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Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds? by userbinator on Thursday December 31, 2015 @08:02PM (#10820655)
...and buy BluRays instead of DVDs.
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