I have been banging on for a long time that as soon as someone produces a decent home computer that is actually designed to be a consumer good then the price of computers as we know them will start to rocket upwards.
We probably need to start thinking about just what constitutes a good developers platform so we can all get behind it and achieve some sort of economies of scale.
That is the iPad, and iPhone/iTouch before it. I don't know what you mean by "decent home computer" but for me "decent computer" is not compatible to "consumer good". Consumer goods are black boxes that just work, computers are DIY tools.
We probably need to start thinking about just what constitutes a good developers platform so we can all get behind it and achieve some sort of economies of scale.