The Future Is Mobile

[jkapp]

Give me my desktop or give me death!!!

Seriously, though, I hate laptops/iphones/ipads and any of that other crap. I need POWER, and that tiny hand-held crap just sucks when it comes to power. I play some online games, and I keep hearing people complaining about lagging in the game - and, sure enough, they're on some laptop

[djAdvocate]

actually, i am somewhat sympathetic to that argument, but it is only because i, like you, and a complete and utter fossil. 

[EVT1]

I like the new combo systems- laptop/tablet/desktop.

A lot of times I play old games anyway, emulate old systems, etc.  It is for this reason I don't give my mom crap for using a $1000 laptop to play solitaire and email 

I am still wanting to build a MAME cabinet- for those games you just have to have a solid setup with a good joystick or other devices- thought of making a modular control panel where you could change them on the fly.  Try Defender with a game pad- or maybe I am just too old- it just ain't right and I cannot play as well.  The same could be said for playing mouse games on a console- was hooked on Unreal Tournament for a while- no way it works right with a console- or a game like Myth- without a keyboard would be a nightmare.

Or maybe some of you don't know what games I am talking about- sorry bout that. 

TN mentioned one quiz game he was hooked on- I got hooked on a seemingly dumb and boring looking game that turned out to be one hell of a puzzler down the road: DROD, and another very good and now free title MYST- URU.

mystonline.com/en/

[djAdvocate]

another article on the subject:

www.businessinsider.com/people-are-beginning-to-talk-seriously-about-googles-search-business-being-irrelevant-2014-10