Thread: Bye Bye PC as we know it! Is the PC a dinosaur?

This is post I considered about for many years, I considered I lastly ask all you THG fans what your view was. As a system builder a few years ago I resolute that the PC was going to be dead, earlier not later. Sure sufficient, we see lap tops are putting back PC's very fast even for gamers difficult high FPS rates. My hard core gaming son, who has gamed my pc (built by us) for almost 10 years is now on an employed Dell 15" with T9300 as of last month, distrust he return the PC.

What I imagined for years is the CPU, GPUs, what is left of the chipset and SSD all appropriate in single heat sink box. My idea is a small box, smaller then an itx system with all the parts and power of the present dual GPUs dual card set ups. Plug this device into the hybrid air-tec cooler or water-tec.My point is that the system designer will find they akin to the dinosaurs extinct. I marvel is the PC a dinosaur too?

I just put equally a very nice Xeon W3520-based desktop system. (The W3520 is just like a Core i7 920 except that it supports ECC memory). My system has three hard drives (with an SSD soon to approach), 12GB of ECC memory, and a 24" widescreen monitor. Laptops, while superior, just couldn't do this for me.

I certainly concur that laptops are becoming more and more competent, but there's a cost premium for compact size and there's for eternity going to be a market section that's looking for better presentation and expandability than a laptop can give. I wait for the market share for laptops to stay growing for a while, but there's no way that desktop PCs will die within at least the next 10 years or so.

Granted that components are receiving smaller and lesser. I think it will obtain quite a bit of time before computers acquire so small and have everything integrated however I think there will at all times be people who build their have systems.

I would think presentation will always depend on custom erects and therefore I am certain there will always be people that will construct custom machines as big brand names will build cheaper PC's for those who require basic tasks and lack knowledge of quality. Brands have to maximize profits.

Heat debauchery is the key to smallness & consolidation of parts. The bigger the box the more heat you can dispel. The more heat you can disperse the more influential the computer. Someone will always desire to build the most influential box probable so your theory falls apart. Personally, I have no employ for a mobile computer. To me they are expensive, high preservation toys with few promote paths other than buying another one. By the time you carry around all the external peripherals you may also just attach a handle to your tower, which I have done more than once.

I favor a desktop over laptops, ALWAYS. However, I do contain a work laptop that's nice to employ when I'm on holiday.But in my house I never have the want to calculate anywhere apart from my desk.But I do see what you denote. I'm the only "tech guy" in my building and I support 300 users. They frequently ask me to review their possible computer purposes and 9 out of 10 are laptops.

I have renounced on computer gaming though, I'm getting a PS3 this holiday season and it's going to be my novel gaming platform\netflix streamer\blu ray player. My main cause is because I love hockey and hockey is more fun on a comfort linked to my 42" television.

I wouldn't call it "dead". But obviously, for 'average' consumers there's less and less cause to spend in a desktop/tower.

Food for further thought: I'm searching the Motorola 'Droid I treated myself to a pair weeks before, which I have on my desk. I can browse the web on it with very sensible speed, make/send/administer email, it has a half decent GPS, obtainable 3rd party programs for near all common uses, etc.. And AAMOF still as I type this I am streaming music over the thing via Last FM.

Even further to the over: Charger dock linked to a Keyboard and Monitor.Arrive home, drop your device into the dock and contain a full sized monitor/keyboard. When you desire to leave, pick it endorsement, put it in your pocket and obtain it all with you.

I observe you guys are like me, I can barely employ a lap top even after last year when I obtained in the top of the line dual m8800gtx w/ X9000 operating 3.2ghz - IMHO, big hot and slow.

I expect you’re all right and the PC will last until I retire! Lol! Per us govern that is no sooner then 2030 as a minimum for SS.

I'm hopeful they'll arise with some sort of hybrid system... a full desktop case permits for so much more heat to be dissolute and if you could separate the case from the inputs/outputs you wouldn't yet have to fret about the noise. I deduction I'm hoping for some in fact stout box full of computing horsepower in one room and a wireless monitor, keyboard, mouse and USB hub in the other with me. Take this one step more and this would just be something you rent and have delivered via the net... not actually delivered... umm... like we'd have dumb terminals in our homes that have access to huge amounts of remote computer power. For most of us, our cell phones give us a competent portable link to the internet/world so I'm really hoping the laptop craze will pass... I actually hope there will yet be a place for more robust systems going forward.

Not only will matter shrink but the heat difficulty will shrink too - large tower will provide no purpose.Heat is idle electrical power or waste, 100% competent system would not need any cooling.