As the PC industry continues to stretch Moore's Law to its maximum, how longer can we expect to go until the IC's can no longer hold on to the etched information?
I believe that we have reached a tipping point in terms of the PC hardware. We can't go on and keep upgrading hardware with all due respect to Moore's Law. I'll be the first to reverse the trend and dust off that Celeron-based eMachine lying around in my basement. Compared to the PC's back in 640k days, this Celeron is a powerhorse - 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, 1.2GHz.
But, Houston - we have a problem. Microsoft Windows has gone so far ahead in terms of capacity demands that it has managed to obsolete the hardware. Even if I manage to run XP Home on this Celeron, it will be dog slow just swapping process information between the RAM and Virtual Disk.
My choices - a thinner OS that gets the job done with minimal downtime. Can't look to the Microsoft camp for any solutions. Looks like it'll have to be Linux, Ubuntu variants.
As more and more PC users catch on to this reverse trend, it might just be the tipping point (in a reverse way) for Microsoft Windows.
Thoughts?
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