content: I've called the moment "performance singularity", and I've been talking about it for quite a few years now. Performance reached a "good enough" point a long time ago. If you're surfing the web or watching str  35d8  eaming video, or even playing a lot of video games, a 10 year old computer is just fine. If you've got a computer with a Core 2 Duo and a Geforce 7900, you're fine for a lot of 2016's games (Maybe not the AAA ones, but perhaps even then if you crank down the graphics levels), and you will not have a single problem with the most common tasks online. So that being the case, it's sensible that PCs aren't going to be growing. The industry isn't going away, but unless someone comes out with a new product that changes everything, people are going to run their machines until they break. I'm on a laptop right now that I bought in 2013 that was apparently released in 2012. I'm thinking of replacing it in the next year or so. Why? Because I travel an extraordinary amount and the constant travel is beginning to take its toll on the physical parts of the computer like the hinges. That's the future of the computer industry for now. AMD saw the writing on the wall --- which is why their top of the line is basically a race to the bottom. Even console manufacturers can see it. In 2005, the consoles were all fighting to be the fastest hardware money could reasonably buy. In 2015, they all have glorified laptop APUs. Smart phones came out and revolutionized computing, but they're basically in a holding pattern now. Tablets came, and they're basically in a holding pattern too. PCs reached their holding pattern earlier, but unless something revolutionary changes things for any of these market segments, it's incremental improvements ahead for everyone.