Quote Originally Posted by Harrison View Post
What do the average home computer family use their home computer for?

Not really all that much in reality.
  1. The Internet
  2. Email
  3. Some gaming
  4. Office work (word processing, children's homework)
  5. Downloading music
  6. Managing music with an MP3 player
  7. Simple digital photo editing, printing and saving to disc
  8. Single Home camcorder video editing and burning to DVD
And that is probably about it. Can you think of anything else?
- Warez
- Pr0n

Oh, wait, you said average family. I think you are probably right, that the average person will go with whatever is easiest, and the rapid emergence of these sort of convergence devices will really suit the average Joe. So maybe there will be less of the PC (in a traditional sense) in the home as time moves on.

However, do we really want to see consoles go more the way of computers (upgrades, various specs, driver installing, fiddling and tinkering) or do we want to see PCs take on more of a console nature (plug it, it works, little/no scope for messing with the innards or functions)? Personally, I'm not so sure either way. Right now I'm happy to keep things a bit separate - a computer for computery things, and a console for consoley things, etc.