Computer Hardware- Just not as important

Over the last few years I have seen a real public shift from a focus on computer hardware to an almost overwhelming fascination over applications. I give credit to this shift to the cell phone. Since cell phones have evolved from a flip talk device to a miniature computer used for personal online browsing, e-mail, calendaring, tracking oil changes, and ordering pizza.
The popularity of the Apple computers is also somewhat responsible for this transition. The hardware platform for the MAC is somewhat limited to just a few processors, unlike the PC where you can go crazy trying to figure out the hardware options. Again the Apple computer is all about applications instead of the hottest running hardware.
I believe this focus on applications is from a maturing user base, as people are now more interested in results computing.
There are some folks out there that just have to have the fastest computer on the market. Many gamers fall into this category of user and there are still some of those who thing they can type faster if they had a quad-core with 12MB of RAM. Sorry to tell you, but for typing speed, most cannot type faster than what an old 8088 processor can handle.
Today, the computer is just a needed piece of hardware that is required to connect to facebook and myspace, or simply used to type the term paper and listen to music. The speed of these machines is of no real concern as long as it meets the minimum resource requirements.