Convergence made us stuck to the 2GHz processing level for 8 years

I remember when I got my Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz way back in 2002. It was a Dell PC, and I loved it. 7 years later, I own a laptop with 4 times the ram, 10 times the graphics but at a 2GHz processing  speed. Convergence made us shift to Laptops. Now Laptops out number PC’s. Convergence made netbooks. Its what you do what matters now and not what you can do. Netbooks today don’t go beyond the 2GHz mark and neither do any laptops. Intel might have recently shipped their i7, but we never needed anything more. It’s about doing multiple things at the same time with respect to your interest. having 2 laptops was a dream 8 years back and now you can own a top end PC and a netbook. Yet you would spend most of your time on that netbook. This shift, this convergence made the web grow beyond. Gave us a thin client like idea of work. Synchronising everything we love, everything we do. The Web grew with our needs with Web 2.0 . It became what we call cloud computing. Although the RAM on each PC increased tremendously, the processing power did not as it did in the beginning. The world is not at all ready for a thin client environment but it’s becoming a mixture of everything. Both PC and Web work together. Are you ready to use just about any other PC?  Does PC, Personal Computer be any more Personal anymore? People love their stuff. People love their hardware. Infact many companies are more inclined towards the user experience (Software) and looks (fashion and outer beauty)  of things. That is bringing a more meaning to PC. So are we going towards a thin client network ? Nops. I think that was excatly what Microsoft had in mind to start off with their lending pc’s patent. Maybe.