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I don't even buy Microsoft's position on that. USB-PD for USB 3.1 was created just for that. It can push out to 100 watts. USB chargers are labeled with how much power they can push. Also, Microsoft still should have that Windows 10 convention to alert a user when a slow charging source is used.
Yeah, the average user has no idea how much amps and watts their charger is.
@onlysublime I respectfully disagree that the Surface Pro will be middle aged in three years. Maybe for the few people who always have to have bleeding edge tech, or those who play the latest HD games (for which the Surface Pro isn't the target demographic), but not the general population. I work in an architect office. We have several computers that are 5-6 years old. They are running old i7-3770k and i7-4770 chips, 16gb ram, with SSD's. Neither are overclocked. We built a new computer last month with the latest motherboards, Kaby lake i7-7700k, 16 gb ram and an SSD, then overclocked by 18%. The new computer beat the other two in a rendering race by only 1 minute. (yes it does it running cooler.) Is the new one better? Absolutely, but it hardly makes the older computers obsolete. Productivity jumps have slowed considerably. The idea that a computer is completely obsolete in 5 years no longer holds water, except of course if you are a gamer. My old DV-6000 from 2007 still runs all the programs (photoshop, autocad, and Sketchup) I need it to and it does it well enough for a work backup working from home. Yes it takes 68 seconds to boot up, and it won't render like my work computer, but that's not what I bought it for. The vast majority of people no longer need to upgrade every 5 years to stay relevant with the technology. Cell phones are still developing rapidly, and may be considered completely obsolete in 5 years, but not computers.
Device turnover with cellphones is slowing too. Used to be 2-3, now its 3-4 and widening.
I think pretty soon it'll get to about the 5 consumers on average apply to PCs.
Moore's law has slowed, and UX differences between smartphones released each year has slowed a lot. Just adding more RAM on a machine that does not much multi-tasking doesn't add a lot. RAM has always been diminishing returns anyway.
Plus there's a degree to which smartphones are being perceived in mature markets now as just a tech appliance, rather than the amazing novelty and status symbol it used to be. Always happens post-adoption phase with new tech.
You are right though, you can have a 5+ old year machine that chugs along running windows 10 for basic tasks just fine, especially if you throw in some upgrades.
My last computer was literally a dell OptiPlex, that I upgraded to 8gb and ssd. Ddr-2, and ran windows 10 just fine, even some games (I actually got gta V running on it, just playably). Graphics card probably matters more for a lot of tasks nowadays, as even 2D graphics will utilise the GPU.
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