Microsoft has you covered, they sell a thin client box that has enough OS to reach the internet and use their browser and office swuite online.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link

Yup.

I mean, there's the slightly slower model for £500 but you know, that's actually worth ~£200 or below

It's monstrous, even that A-tech.. :( I hate to imagine the corps sucking them up buying them in bulk at about 80% off.. But they can afford it. The only ones losing are us, either buying them at this price, or the sellers, forced to dissuade the public from buying any because Daddy Meta wants it all

It's exceptionally irrational at the moment. Everyone is not just gambling on an irrational self-valuation of the bet, they're seeing each other's bets, and that is adding an extra level of FOMO irrationality, increasing the bets even further.

With Trump's acts of economic self-mutilation already weakening the economy, this is going to be a wild ride when the bubble pops.

Yup. Like I just grabbed a nice laptop for $150 that was $1200 in 2025 because Microsoft dictated that every computer is obsolete to their OS.

Much like RAM, around 90% of Nvidia's hardware in 2025 is for data centers. Unfortunately it's mostly specialized hardware that can't be used in consumer computers.

"The business case doesn't add sufficient value for the customer. We need to prioritize creating a lickable UI."

I was running 16 for years and only recently upgraded when I hit a wall with modern games. I think the majority of games are fine with 16.

I had to Google hypervisor before I could answer. No, I'm not running any virtual machines on my computer. It's pretty much just a media machine: games, movies, music, websites, etc.