• TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Agreed. PCs will wind up being for power users only, both due to cost and the decline in tech literacy.

    But also, Nvidia is already salivating at the idea of people streaming games from what amounts to glorified chromebooks. Whether those are actually running a Google OS or a Microsoft one doesn’t ultimately matter - the point is that they will be locked into a walled garden with minimally-powerful hardware. Can such a device even really be considered a PC anymore?

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      the point is that they will be locked into a walled garden with minimally-powerful hardware. Can such a device even really be considered a PC anymore?

      My main laptop is an ancient chromebook that I jailbroke and put Linux on.

      While they’re locked down, I wouldn’t really consider them to be a PC. But if you can unlock them…