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What technologies are geeks pioneering today?
But what if this effect, on a larger and less age-specific scale, is the bigger trend that Ben’s seeing?
What if most geeks today really are just buying Macs instead of building their own overclocked Windows PCs from Newegg parts?
What if PC gaming really is on a decline because only a very small slice of the population is willing to pay $500 for a giant, hot, loud video card and endure the Great PC Gaming Pain-in-the-Ass Trifecta of drivers, patches, and copy protection, leaving almost every gamer to just stick with game consoles for a fraction of the cost and hassle?
And what if a big slice of even the most hardcore geeks have abandoned their netbooks for iPads because they just work so much better most of the time?
Even geeks (like us) have their limits of reasonability. At some point, we often decide that what we’ve been doing or what we think we should enjoy just isn’t worthwhile.
The timing is great for this because a few of my coworkers just made the leap with their new purchases.
I’ve been practicing grownup computing for almost a decade now.
(Source: benjaminste.in, via marco)
