PC World _Computers_ (http://www.pcworld.com/category/computers-all) _hardware_ (http://www.pcworld.com/tag/hardware/) , _Gaming PC_ (http://www.pcworld.com/tag/gamingpc/) , _Steam_ (http://www.pcworld.com/tag/steam/) , The PC's weird and wonderful future Hayden Dingman _@haydencd_ (https://twitter.com/haydencd) Jan 8, 2014
brainout 01/08/2014 05:41 PM PST Meh. Only the Razer idea was partly interesting, but certainly not that design. Remember the old toolboxes with drawers? Big box with lots of pull-out drawers. Make it red or white or anything but light-absorbing, depressing BLACK or GRAY.. and make each component slide in. Kinda like how Dell designs its laptops with slide-out bays, into which you could instead slide in another hard drive, or battery pack, or optical drive or.. whatever. So I never have to open the back of the machine, or worry whether my anti-static wrist thingy isn't working. Okay, well maybe not just a big box, but something more creative. But not, the RAZER, which looks like an accident waiting to happen. Remember those Zip disk stands, where the disks were always falling out? The RAZER, looks like them. Tippy. You can make money off components. Just gotta have the right base design. Then PC sales will never slump.. well, gotta go back to SENSIBLE OS INTERFACES like we had in XP. You know, where you don't have to spend all day GUESSING WHERE SOMETHING IS LOCATED. So the first component to fix, is the desktop interface. Make that modular, too; so those who drool over Fisher-Price Win8, can keep it. And the workers among us who want something sensible like the REAL START MENU WE HAD, can have it, instead. Couple that, with a return to the good old days when the manufacturer of the hardware, gave you the driver, and the OS just OBEYED what driver was given it, instead of tyrannically imposing its own mediocre driver design. Oh: and all the program components should be installed in only ONE directory, so you can just delete the directory to uninstall the program. Again, no tyrannical OS interfering, with its mediocre oversight. Couple that with a return to sensible search in the OS so that it actually FINDS what you search for (Google, are you listening, because your search engine is awful, too); couple that with DVD writing for XP fans; couple that with a mobo which can handle ANY OS structure you want to put on it.. and you'd have PC sales singing happily, for decades to come. Notice, I didn't say, 'Microsoft, are you listening?' because they had 11 years to listen, and didn't. No hope for them. Time to find another OS vendor who will NOT change the interface or will instead modularize the desktop so the user can configure his own desktop as he pleases, sans worry that some years future, an arrogant software designer will impose dysfunctional, inflationary changes. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
