stinkingpig Wrote: > Mark Lanctot wrote: > > That said, it doesn't matter what I think...because Intel and > Microsoft > > are gearing up to put a media PC in every home. There will be > millions, > > possibly billions, spent on marketing - it's seen as the next major > > growth area for PCs now that office and home PCs have reached > > saturation. So I doubt whether little old me will make a difference > in > > the face of such a juggernaut. :-) > > > > > Just remember the Itanium, or as The Register loved to call it, the > Itanic... they can spend whatever they want on marketing, it doesn't > necessarily mean that they'll sell any boxes :) WindowsME got plenty of > > marketing too, and $DIETY pity the poor folks who bought it... it > certainly didn't take over the home market the way that Microsoft > intended for it to do. >
Yes, good point. Given the "cocooning" trend going on though, home theatres are hot. Even if Joe Six-Pack doesn't know the difference between good equipment and bad equipment, he wants it. The media PC may very well appeal to the mass-market. It may be more cost-effective than the 5 or 6 different devices it's designed to replace. Almost everyone here knows that it won't be as good, but that often doesn't matter. :-) We'll have to wait and see. Notice that thin clients are very popular among the geek crowd. I won't speak for anyone but myself, but I personally put the Squeezebox in that category. On the video side, everyone seems to talk about the Slingbox, which also seems to appeal to the geeks. Thin clients have never really made it fully mainstream yet. Computer-based devices like the Xbox360 and the PS3 certainly have/will make it mainstream. We'll see if the media PC does the same. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22474 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
