Desktop gaming in the next 5 years
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Yeah which is high end CPU's.
They didn't say they will stop making them, they said it will not be a priority to keep pushing to be the fastest or to match Intel.
and who cares about the mass public they are not the ones driving the technology forward anyway. for students, professionals, gamers and enthusiasts desktops can not be replaced and that will not change any time soon.
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No way. My job could never be done without at the very least a mouse and at least one large screen neither of which are provided by a tablet thus an SFF desktop (as we use at work) is far more suitable.
Businesses buy more computers than all aspects of the public combined and not many of them can convert to tablet. Not least because a tablet is faaaaaaar easier to steal or take out of work which is not suitable for most office work or sensitive work.
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sorry but your toy-tablets will never replace desktops no matter how much you dream of that happening. tablets will be replaced much earlier with something else and the big guys in the industry are pushing ultra-books more than tablets at the moment.
these companies must be pretty serious if they just want to pay you so you can browse the internet because thats the only thing a tablet can do. your arguments are laughable. and if you cant find space for a desktop you need to get your priorities straight and get a decent-sized house.
Who said it was?
Read my other posts in this thread because you're missing the point.
Tablets (or any mobile technology for that matter) won't replace desktops for either productivity, power intensive tasks (this is a very large and broad market, however you look at it) and gaming in the foreseeable future.
And you just said yourself that your circumstances changed which is why you moved away from serious gaming, that means your example has nothing to do with tablets replacing desktop PCs.
I think they lost that battle a long time ago.
I can't even comprehend how serious these companies must be if they replace their workstations with tablets.
I think they lost that battle a long time ago.
LOL but at least now people expectations will be more realistic when it comes the AMD desktop CPUs.
Lol , you haven't got a clue. You can build apps to do anything and industries are.
No wonder companies are pushing notebooks, maybe that's because theres no windows OS yet.
Really you need to go do some reading.
Why not? How much power do you need to run email and server side applications. Oh yeah most companies need very little computing power front end. Tablets are also portable and as such far more flexibility. How many companies run stuff on the computers these days. Data and queries are all server side.
There's probably a good reason 'the big guys in the industry' are pushing ultrabooks above tablets - namely because they are running scared. Intel for example has an extremely good marketshare for laptop processors but nothing to write home about in the mobile/tablet market. They have a vested interest in perpetuating the traditional computer architecture used by laptops because if consumers start focussing on tablets they'll likely see diminishing profits from their consumer arm.
Miniturisation (sp?) is a very prevalent trend in technology and big hefty desktop towers will start to become less and less common over time I'm sure. I used to be very pro-desktop when there was a bigger price difference but nowadays I just recommend laptops+peripherals to people if they aren't gamers. I think laptops (in some form or other) are still here to stay for the forseeable future due to the corporate market but even so I can see a time coming when a computer itself is extremely small, you just have big peripherals (tools for visualation/sound, input devices) connected to it. So basically you have a glorified USB stick with a bunch of sockets or wireless communication to plug things in (currently stuff like micro-HDMI/USB, but dunno what will be around in the future.
In fact thinking about it I can even see a time when you don't actually carry the 'guts' of a computer around, you basically just have some sort of interface to it that works wirelessy, wherever you are in the world (within reason) you can wirelessly connect your devices to it. So like, you'd have some sort of holographic projector and voice recognition, just carry it around in your pocket, then press the button and you've got a virtual computer.
Miniturisation (sp?) is a very prevalent trend in technology and big hefty desktop towers will start to become less and less common over time I'm sure. I used to be very pro-desktop when there was a bigger price difference but nowadays I just recommend laptops+peripherals to people if they aren't gamers. I think laptops (in some form or other) are still here to stay for the forseeable future due to the corporate market but even so I can see a time coming when a computer itself is extremely small, you just have big peripherals (tools for visualation/sound, input devices) connected to it. So basically you have a glorified USB stick with a bunch of sockets or wireless communication to plug things in (currently stuff like micro-HDMI/USB, but dunno what will be around in the future.
In fact thinking about it I can even see a time when you don't actually carry the 'guts' of a computer around, you basically just have some sort of interface to it that works wirelessy, wherever you are in the world (within reason) you can wirelessly connect your devices to it. So like, you'd have some sort of holographic projector and voice recognition, just carry it around in your pocket, then press the button and you've got a virtual computer.
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As I said before portability is not necessarily a good thing. Govenment departments won't be using tablets any time soon they have enough trouble with leaving USB sticks on trains let alone allowing civil servants to take home their entire work desktop. Also I cannot imagine writing any code on a tablet unless said tablet is plugged into a big monitor and a keyboard. In which case why not just have an SFF desktop??? How about using CAD that would also require a mouse and big monitor so again why not use an SFF desktop as pretty much all offices are now using.
Also what would you rather write your emails/documents on? One tiny 10.1" screen or sat at a larger monitor?
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I haven't said desktops are dead, I said the Market will contract. Certain areas will always need the fastest. But those areas are shrinking fast and only have such a Market lead in desktops due to the tech being brand-new and in windows case not even existing and the lead time.
Are company for example has replaced loads of desktops with laptops ages ago, for anyone remotely mobile. Including anyone who has meetings. They're rolling out iPhones and iPads this year to people on the ground with custom apps. Almost all software was made server side years ago.
Even the desktops are well not powerfully at all.
Are company for example has replaced loads of desktops with laptops ages ago, for anyone remotely mobile. Including anyone who has meetings. They're rolling out iPhones and iPads this year to people on the ground with custom apps. Almost all software was made server side years ago.
Even the desktops are well not powerfully at all.
But you still need a critical Market mass that will shrink.
Again desktop pc ain't going anywhere. But the porting will continue to increase and less games being made. Again this is more than likely outside the next 5years.
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Yes but you are making it sound like the desktop sector will contract hugely. Which is patent bull****. Sure at home plenty of people may switch and mobile workers but static office workers will never be moving to tablet due to the ergonomics of a desktop setup over a tablet for office work.
It will contract massively, not in next 5 years.
Why do static office people need a desktop. When a pc on a USB stick or built into the screens/keyboard or whatever is far cheaper and more than powerful enough, as most things are now done server side.
Why do static office people need a desktop. When a pc on a USB stick or built into the screens/keyboard or whatever is far cheaper and more than powerful enough, as most things are now done server side.