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Kettles and HiFis

Filed in Notes on June 9th 05 .

Not my kettle

“Computers feel more like appliances than they used to in the days when we hand soldered memory chips onto the motherboard or fiddled with DIP switches. A little, but not much – but they’re cheaper and more disposable, and so there’s less concern about what’s really in the box.”

Andrew Orlowski, The Osborne Effect Spooks Apple

  • As long as the next laptop is as quiet as this G4 iBook, I’ll be happy
  • It looks like the first Macs on Intel will be noisy old P4 chips
  • My HiFi is 10 years old and works fine and has done most days
  • My kettle is 15 years old – that is BBC B+ heritage – and it boils
  • Why can’t computers last as long as kettles and HiFis? I mean why do we need to upgrade every 10 seconds. Moores’ Law must hit diminishing returns at some point surely?

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