[AlexandrB]

This is very optimistic. I see a future where high hardware prices push more and more stuff to the cloud and consumer hardware becomes largely a thin client. Soon doing anything with a computer will require an internet connection because the "local" portion of software will be an electron UI that makes API calls to a server somewhere to do any "serious" work.

[treis]

I have a T430 that came out 14 years ago that does "serious" work for me. For almost everyone the computers they use are wildly over speced for what they use it for.

[Lwerewolf]

My 2nd hand ~$200 (minus a 256gb SSD upgrade) T400 was the best laptop I've ever had. Comfy everything, best laptop keyboard I've ever had, not worrying about dropping it on concrete from 2 meters (on the big extended battery, no less). Coil whine when switching p-states, no IPS, that's about it.

Utilitarian laptops need to come back yesterday.

[Danox]

No not going back to a mainframe computing…

[mbreese]

Don’t worry - the cycle will reverse again at some point and we’ll go back to more powerful local machines.

[AlecSchueler]

Why do you expect it would be cyclical when the power capture would be extremely valuable to the main players?

[linkregister]

And those main players will just be outcompeted. I'm sure DEC wasn't anticipating the PC revolution to take hold so quickly.