The future of desktop pc's
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That sounds more like your hands and eyes are the problem
I imagine in 5-10 years when Australia gets the 'proper internet' you'll find stuff like cloud storage quite useful too
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Can you sit back and watch full HD movies on you're laptop with a good sound system to round it off? No?
Not sure about that bit. I don't think my PC CPU could teach much to my PS3 CPU.
You've already got them.
HP for example have the touchsmart range which have everything built into a HD screen, plus you a tv tuner, a HDMI input & touchscreen control. Quite pricey though.
I still prefer to use my desktop for anything that needs decent control. I'll use my netbook for browsing the web but I wouldn't use a laptop or netbook for work.
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Its not exactly portable then is it, nor does it save you deskspace.
Just no.
They rarely render above 1280x720 and even at that struggle to match the details, textures, effects and anti aliasing and filtering a PC can manage at resolutions much much higher.
For some games like Modern Warfare 2 they can't even render at 1280x720, they have to scale up from something like 1066x600. That is not 'very good indeed', that is downright awful frankly.
I'm wondering when wireless HDMI is going to appear - it's good to (about bloody time) to have a protocol that carries HD video and sound together, so wireless it and you'd be looking at a pretty handy set-up.
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The desktop OC won't ever properly die. Desktops will probably get sleeker and obviously faster but the tower itself will remain for a long time and one of the biggest plus points of it being connectivity and expansion.
Wireless HD sending is already here, among the top units is something like this although that will cover most home requirements multimedia wise you could get cheaper units that stream solo etc.
Oh yeah, PC's? come on people!
Wireless HD sending is already here, among the top units is something like this although that will cover most home requirements multimedia wise you could get cheaper units that stream solo etc.
Oh yeah, PC's? come on people!
That sounds more like your hands and eyes are the problem
O rly? Try playing WoW on a console. Oh wait - you can't.
I imagine in 5-10 years when Australia gets the 'proper internet' you'll find stuff like cloud storage quite useful too
For some people, I guess. I'd never use it. Looking forward to that 100mb national broadband network, though.
A direct comparison might be difficult due to the different architecture, but I strongly doubt that a PS3 could compete with a decent desktop PC in real terms. I run my games on a full HD monitor at 1920x1200 with AA. Suck on that, PS3!
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Some experts suggest the distant future will see everything in the "Cloud", where big data centers store data, run software, games etc, so all you need is Net access plus screen, keyboard and mouse.
Desktops are popular on forums like these because they are easily upgradable - something that's much more complicated on a laptop (or games console for that matter).
I think we will continue to see a convergence of communication/multimedia technology, so the boundaries between mobile phones, PDAs and netbooks will become greyer and greyer. At some point I would envisage us basically having our mobile as a our main PC, with the ability connect peripherals and stream to other devices.
Things like voice recognition and touchscreen surely must expand to until we reach a point where your basic computing functions that are used by your average man on the street can all be done without a keyboard and mouse.
I think we will continue to see a convergence of communication/multimedia technology, so the boundaries between mobile phones, PDAs and netbooks will become greyer and greyer. At some point I would envisage us basically having our mobile as a our main PC, with the ability connect peripherals and stream to other devices.
Things like voice recognition and touchscreen surely must expand to until we reach a point where your basic computing functions that are used by your average man on the street can all be done without a keyboard and mouse.
If you live in Japan where the cost of 1Mbps speed is equal to $0.26 and the average speed is 61Mbps maybe but over here in the UK? Lol
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If you live in Japan where the cost of 1Mbps speed is equal to $0.26 and the average speed is 61Mbps maybe but over here in the UK? Lol
That's why I said distant future
Minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps, what is our government thinking?!?
A laptop can be connected to a decent keyboard, mouse, monitor and sound system allowing it to be used as a desktop or used on the go, for general use this makes laptops superior to desktops, especially considering they use less power.