[feralchimp]

"Performance per watt" is great, but when I step within 2 meters of a power outlet I want "performance." And many machines (including laptops) spend their lives within 2 meters of a power outlet.

At what point did "consumer" start meaning "low end" or "handheld"? The 27" quad-core i7 iMac is a consumer computer. Gaming PCs are consumer computers.

[shasta]

Presumably you still care about "performance per dollar" though, and we're approaching a time when "dollars per Watt" isn't negligible.

[grannyg00se]

Probably around the same time people started predicting the end of the PC era as smartphones and tablets took off.