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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Wehaven't seen anything yet. The power of computer chips is increasing at an exponential rate (while prices continue to crash), so what we consider high-end today will be even more laughable 40 years from now. As computer chips increase in power and drop in price, it becomes easy to sell a cheap device with even more features than the previous high-end, there's always more room for extra features people didn't know they wanted, especially when those extra features come in a device that's cheaper than their old device.
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Well, yes "The power of computer chips is increasing at an exponential rate"; but
not "prices continue to crash". A high end PC costs the same today as it did in 1985. Around $1000 would get you a state of the art PC AT clone then, and it will get you a high end quad core processer with a TByte drive and 8 GB of RAM today.
It's just that a high end PC is very much higher end than it was in 1985. Actually the prices are decreasing, but only in terms of the dollar not being worth as much today as it was then.