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RE: New Desktop Computer
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I agree that computers have become very specialized. The pre-fabricated computer miners for Bitcoin have only one single purpose and are very difficult to repurpose for anything other then mining.
This is not how I envisioned computers developing. I thought they might become fancy home media centers like a PlayStation which allows internet webpage navigation via a built in browser, photo and movie storage, playing streaming movies via Netflix, watching YouTube and playing games.
But so far I haven’t seen that, but perhaps individuals can build their own system to do all these things. And a popular manufacturer will follow up and improve upon this media center design.
We will see.
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I've always figured there would be a few types of computers that can do everything alright, ie. phones, laptops/tablets and desktops (especially with peripherals). These are very good for lifesyle, etc.
And then there are computers that can do one or two things extremely well (ie. bitcoin miners, robots). Cloud computing and storage are opening up interesting new avenues, and cryptology is keeping everything safe, but there are still some things I don't feel comfortable having on the internet. Air gapping is still the best failsafe we have. Also, if we want computers to be extremely efficient and tiny, we will only make them useful for what we are using them for.