I do like that my MP3 Music purchases at Amazon are on the cloud for retrieval/listening purposes.  To me, THAT makes sense.  It's not sensitive information stored.  It IS convenient in that case.  Your drive crashes, you can re-download your music or whatnot.

I personally think the desktop computer will come full circle.  In the 80s and 90s, the PC was the geek's toy.  Around the time that Windows ME (remember that mess?) was coming out, everyone was getting a PC.  But people were (are) only using it to get emails and do the social thing.  That will be replaced with the tablet/phone and in the not-so-distant future, desktop PCs will be geek toys again.  I don't think it will vanish.

I'm surprised that the mini-PCs haven't done so well.  You know the ones with the really small PC towers?  I am guessing that there's so little room to change out components or expand them.

Everything seems to be the same size it was in '95... Mid to Full PC Towers, ATX boards, CPUs with big ass fans on them, oversized video cards.  I just built a new PC a month ago (i7-3770 3.4 GHz, nice ASUS board, Cooler Master case and fans) and it had been a while since I built one.  I was surprised how little the process changed :D

Yeah, RedPhantom, its being too much at the company's whim and decisions that bothers me on the cloud app/OS front.  Guess that this does kind-of go back to Poser and why I like it.  It's user friendly enough on the surface but you can get in there (with a text-editor, no less) and really geek around with it - they are exposing more options all the time and there is always Python extend/enhance the experience.

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