Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 878 from 2003/3/4
From: #AmigaZeux, Gu...
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minator wrote:
However, computing isn't just about desktops or laptops these days. There's computers of one sort of another in all sorts of form factors for all sorts of prices.
There's lots of little machines around these days like the Android TV boxes which are probably rather more powerful than your G5s by now.
I wouldn't bet on it. They were getting faster for a bit there, and seemed to have levelled off. As far as Android TV box goes, if it can throw A/V over to hardware decoding, then they don't
need to be fast.
In fact, it's downright a problem if they are, because it needs beefier power supply, more room for cooling, perhaps even a fan, etc - none of which people want for a TV box.
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Then there's the Raspberry Pi, they've sold 25 MILLION of those things! I think they'll be around for a while and they're really cheap.
And really low power. Launching anything close to a modern browser on one, for example, is a hideous experience regardless of OS. Once you start doing things like trying to turn one into a desktop-like experience, its limitations show very quickly.
