Larry Litmanen :
The smaller the PC market gets they less investment goes into it.
Here's the problem, PC experience is amazing on the high end, with SSD PC boots in seconds and on a 34 inch 1440P monitor everything is amazing. But MOST people are not in that area, most people buy PCs for $300-$400 and suffer with them and abandon the market.
Here's how i would resuscitate the PC market, if i am Intel i would have every new chip on the market support nothing but 1080P displays at a minimum as to get rid of everything below it. I would only support storage that boots in under 15 seconds. I would discontinue all support for any output that is older than HDMI. I would discontinue support for monitors that are smaller than 20 inches.
People would upgrade if they had issues accessing Facebook or Internet browser, maybe these tech companies can work with those to make browsers more feature rich to encourage people to buy more powerful hardware.
That's a great idea, and companies like Apple have gone that route and become highly profitable.
Unfortunately the PC market is driven firstly (ND Maybe solely) by price, and lastly by consumer experience. Suggest buying a Mac, and the first 10,000 comments will be "get a pc with 10x the spec for 1/10th the price".
How can I explain the user experience of a 5K imac to a user who's still debating the cost of 1440. Harder still when I've been using 5K for 2 years now, and 1440... well that's 2009 for me.
Now this is a gaming centric ENTHUSIAST forum, and not representative of the pc market. Don't forget that. We OC and water cool while the 95% of the market think a bus is how some people get to work.
Enthusiast motorists want to do engine and drivetrain swaps in their garages, but look out your window and 99.9% of cars are pre-built. There will always be enthusiasts in every area (thankfully), but computers today are almost utilities, standardised tools. I don't want to buy a drill in bits and assemble it, I just want to choose my model and start using it.