Kettles and HiFis
“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”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/08/apple_osborne_effect/
* 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?