Why buy the latest personal computer motherboard/RAM/chip/power supply/cooling/video card when you can stream all this and more over the faster-than-Ethernet-cabling signal direct to your personal monitor/keyboard/mouse by a virtual machine you rent that's running on industrial servers that are 10x more powerful anyway?
If this were cheaper I would go the rental path. But currently, the rental costs are such that owning your own computer pays for itself in a reasonable time. Right now, I think a factor of two downward change in the price, and I would go for it.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.
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