The Bughatti Veyron. Amazing technology. 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds. 0-150 mph in 8.6 seconds. 0-250 mph in less than a minute! And yet it rides as well as nearly anything on the road.
Price? Well, if you must ask… $1.55 million U.S. dollars. That is if you can find one.
A wonderful example of having far more power than nearly anyone needs. Owning one would be amazing. Thinking you need one, truly need it, and you’re just fooling yourself.
Which brings me to my computer. It has been nearly 3 years since I purchased my first Macintosh. It is a basic Mac Mini with a Core Solo Intel processor and 1 gig of memory.
A very basic set-up by today’s standards and yet it still performs amazingly well for it’s purposes.
There was a time when you could count on your computer becoming behind the times within weeks and nearly useless within 18-24 months. Not anymore. Why?
We’re asking our PCs to do less than we used to. The latest games? The consoles take care of those. Editing video and photos? How many of us do much more than catalog, rough edit, and use the red-eye reduction? Some do much more than that of course which is why high end systems exist but they just aren’t necessary for most of us and that has PC makers in a pickle.
Most of us want basic photo storage and viewing. Basic video editing and playback. Solid Web access and email. Give a teen solid YouTube access and a Facebook account and the modern PC is getting 90% of its mission accomplished.
My 3-year old Mac gets all of that done with ease.
More than anything else the computer industry is in need of the next high-end killer app. Something that will finally tax our old systems beyond their limits and once again have us lusting for more power.
So what will make us all run out and buy the equivalent to a Veyron for our next home PC?
Would you believe 3D television?
— to be continued
