[Skybird]

Still cannot see how tablets, smartphones and laptops (often been counted as PCs nowadays) could replace desktop stations in many prefessional jobs, studios, and for gamers.

And look at the infantile crap you get as games for Android only.

Modern consoles also are surprisingly narrow in what they have to offer in games.

And then this damn pest, "cloud". The next big thing that Microsoft aims at, Windows 10 will be its last OS, and what a mess it so far is both in quality and features.

Current rig is 6 years old and smoothly runs everything I throw at it, I will likely buy a new one in the coming 12 months.

Problem is not so much technology itself, but our deeply overpaced economic structures and understanding of how economy should be done. Always, newer, always faster, always short intervals. If you race down the autobahn at that speed you cannot avoid it but must hit the pillow of a bridge sooner or later, its inevitable.