the death of the pc

[qubit]

Oh, is the PC dying again?!? That's nice.

Yes, yes it is dying (sniff) and it's all your fault!

I have zip ties...my pc will never die.

I do like your proper DIY solution, Caps.

 

[Ferrum Master]

So this says death of Intel, yeah sure... seeing yearly income... sure...

I guess nobody had dismissed the chase for more faster supercomputers, and they are really still too slow(and the export embargo sparks CPU development at Russian and Chinese camps). And for years they consist from the same consumer architecture parts... so eventually PC will be nearly immortal as performance cannot be enough, we can add calculation precision even more.

Toys are are toys...

Someone said that books will die out too... well I can't really see that coming too... there are millions of people without electricity even. And some cucumber who only does se*ting and watching 9gag etc stupid leisure activity, let him be... who cares... From this persons point of view the PC is dead, yes, as he cannot see more and reason a objective point of view from other opinions and is not capable of.

This thread should be closed.

 

[Hawkstream]

"This thread should be closed."

Maybe but I found that WSJ article from today very interesting. Everyone should take a look.

 

[Ferrum Master]

WSJ article

PM me when Playboy starts writing game reviews also. Or some gardening advices.

 

[Hawkstream]

PM me when Playboy starts writing game reviews also. Or some gardening advices.

Playboy??! Are you posting through a wormhole from 1965?

 

[Ferrum Master]

Playboy??! Are you posting through a wormhole from 1965?

You didn't catch the idea.

Let me give one more joke.

One rider showing near apocalypse and death of PC will be Half Life 3 coming out, thats for sure.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

sadly, its coming sooner than later, ...

Steam sales say otherwise. If PC was dying, do you seriously think Valve would be investing so heavily in Steam Machine? Why do you think so many manufacturers have shown interest in it to the point of making prototypes and cases designed for it well before Valve has even ironed out all the details?

For a gamer with the spec you have, you seem very out of the loop. PC is more and more THE platform for startup dev teams to get their foot in the door, and is actually increasing in sales, not decreasing.

The only reason portable sales are so high is it's largely a disposable market exploited by subscription services. That doesn't automatically equate to PC sales declining like you seem to think though.

Trust me, the garbage dumps are amassing cell phones as quickly as consumers are. It's a high turn over market, where the device is given away to sell the service. PC is more cyclical and stable due to more sustaining profit margins.

 

[Bill_Bright]

That doesn't automatically equate to PC sales declining like you seem to think though.

To be sure, we are no where near the death of the PC, but it is a well established, and undeniable fact PC sales have declined significantly, with double digit percentages in recent years.

But PC makers still shipped about 70 million PCs in the first quarter of 2015. That's down 5.2 to 6.7% (depending on who's doing the analysis) from same quarter last year but still projects at least 275 million PC sales for 2015. Those are still HUGE numbers. And while the global sales figures may be down, the world's largest PC maker, Lenovo is seeing PC sales going up.

So it will be a long time before the PC is dead.

There are many who believe much of the global decline is due to the general unpopularity of Windows 8 so many PC owners are hanging on to their W7 systems. And many of those same analysts believe PC sales will turn around with W10.

I have no doubts the PC tower will get smaller as more and more move to µATX and smaller motherboards, SSDs, and more efficient CPUs and GPUs (thus requiring less cooling and smaller PSUs). But die? Not for a very long time.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Most of the games on portable are pay-to-win cash-grabs. They do very poorly on Windows/Linux/Mac. The same games ported from portable to Windows/Linux/Mac often have the pay-to-win model stripped out of them. Portable games generally are just time wasters when people are riding on a bus or sitting in a waiting room. They don't take hardly any time to figure out and can be picked up and set down rapidly. Windows/Linux/Mac games largely aren't that way.

Windows/Linux/Mac found its niche in FPS, RPG, and RTS when consoles were a major threat (things consoles did poorly). With the rise of indie titles and ports from all other platforms (mobile and console), there's a lot of everything. Windows especially is a melting pot of all games. Even if sales fall, they aren't going away because they're too damn versatile.

There are many who believe much of the global decline is due to the general unpopularity of Windows 8 so many PC owners are hanging on to their W7 systems. And many of those same analysts believe PC sales will turn around with W10.

The economy, globally, isn't doing so great either. At the end of the day, a computer is a luxury commodity so it takes a hit when people don't feel good about their financial situation. They'll opt to repair over buying new which isn't reflected in computer sales.

 

[Bill_Bright]

At the end of the day, a computer is a luxury commodity

Luxury commodity? That's a contradiction in terms. New computers or gaming computers? Okay. But it has come where just about everyone must at least have access to a computer, and the Internet.

 

[tastegw]

hit and run! gogogo

 

[qubit]

hit and run! gogogo

Troll thread confirmed.

 

[erocker]

hit and run! gogogo

Not appropriate.