How old is your work computer? – asks the Wall Street Journal.

Mine is a year-and-a half old.  The dual-core former screamer (obviously not the one the the pic to the right) has become an average slow machine now that quad-core is the standard, but I could not care less.   I don’t need a faster, bigger computer for work, in fact not even for video-conferencing or watching movies.

In fact I (and most of us) don’t even need  1-2 year-old computers, either, now that browser is the computer.

Now, you’ve heard this a zillion times, but let me present another side: the more you use your computers, the slower they get.  In fact it gets worse:  you don’t even have to use your computers, they get slower by themselves.

Why, and more importantly, what’s the solution?  Read the full article on CloudAve – while at it, might as well grab the feed here.

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My first computer was a Commodore 64.  Most of you probably don’t want to know the specs:

• 1Mhz CPU (yes, that’s One)
• 64Kbmemory (Yes, that’s K not M), and only about half available via the BASIC programming language

I thought they were history.  Well, in a way they are - but they are LIVE! (if not kicking).

Commodore has announced a Netbook.  Not particularly desirable, if yo ask me - for some of the better ones check out GigaOM’s rundown, ironically also published today.

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