Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era

Re:Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era by jiggy2011 on Monday March 19, 2012 @07:15PM (#3726853)

I think this is partly because there hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade your PC for a while unless you are really into PC games or are doing some very intensive work.

If you bought a new PC 6 years ago it probably has a dual core CPU , 2GB+ of memory , a 100GB+ HDD and some hardware accelerated graphics.

In other words enough to comfortably run Windows 7, Office, Chrome and even Photoshop.

There are still plenty of workplaces around where computers are still predominately Pentium 4s.

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Re:Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era by ghshephard on Monday March 19, 2012 @11:41PM (#3727715)

In the last 8 years I've gone through three laptops (MBPro, MBPro) six phone (Palm Treo, iPhone, 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S) and three tablets (iPad, iPad 2, iPad 2012).

At work, for that entire 8 year stretch, I've done 100% of my network diagrams/power points/Boring-office-stuff on a Dell Precision 650 with a grand total of 4 GBytes of ram (That was a lot back in 2013) running (and still running) windows XP.

I think _that_ has a lot do with why AAPL is now roughly double MSFT.

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