Need new desktop PC advice

[Perry Winkle]

I've been in San Francisco doing job interviews the last two days. Some of the conversations have been crazy.

With one pair of interviewers we talked about how we might redesign certain products (GMail, Twitter, etc). It became clear to me how much the things the people who design and build the software want differ from what the intended audience want. Not even in the same ballpark.

Even within "my" ballpark the desires aren't really in the same ballpark.

I bring this up because it seems relevant to Windows 8, Mac, Facebook, *whatever* hate. There is surely a bubble where the decisions made on those products makes a lot of sense.

Some will use a certain product because their needs align with the assumptions of those in the design bubble. Others will use certain products because they can't figure out any way but the established choices. And then there is the group where none of those products make sense and so they take a (many, really) third way.

(n.b. I've met people who unabashedly love Windows 8 and for decent reasons. I'm not sure they aren't extraterrestrials.)