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...Would you rather buy a dumb computer for $500 or a decent computer...
Several companies have adopted this philosophy, including Oracle and IBM, and are now developing so-called "dumb PC's." Although Ballmer questioned this philosophy at the meeting, he said that Microsoft would develop software for whatever machine people wanted...
...question remains, would you rather have a dumb computer connected to a network or a smart one? I'd rather have a smart computer connected to a network than a dumb...
What can a $500 dumb computer do? Not much. A decent 17-inch color monitor costs about $700. Most people want to see their information in color on a nice, big screen; how will IBM and Oracle overcome this difficulty...
Powerful applications require lots of Random Access Memory (RAM). Minimum requirements for most operating systems plus applications are at least 16 megabytes of RAM. Presumably, a dumb computer on a network using modularized applications will mean the demise of RAM-hungry applications. Assuming this is true and that a dumb PC only requires about 8 megabytes of RAM, this is still about...