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System Name | Senile |
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Processor | I7-4790K@4.8 GHz 24/7 |
Motherboard | MSI Z97-G45 Gaming |
Cooling | Be Quiet Pure Rock Air |
Memory | 16GB 4x4 G.Skill CAS9 2133 Sniper |
Video Card(s) | GIGABYTE Vega 64 |
Storage | Samsung EVO 500GB / 8 Different WDs / QNAP TS-253 8GB NAS with 2x10Tb WD Blue |
Display(s) | 34" LG 34CB88-P 21:9 Curved UltraWide QHD (3440*1440) *FREE_SYNC* |
Case | Rosewill |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard + HD HDMI |
Power Supply | Corsair HX750 |
Mouse | Logitech G5 |
Keyboard | Corsair Strafe RGB & G610 Orion Red |
Software | Win 10 |
More on the future irrelevance of the desktop PC industry:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrog...vance-microsoft-tries-to-reinvent-everything/
This is particularly interesting, Gates was ahead of the game at one point:
Article goes on about Win8 and the Microsoft "store". Guessing the future, we all see where it's heading.
Another blurb about intel:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrog...vance-microsoft-tries-to-reinvent-everything/
This is particularly interesting, Gates was ahead of the game at one point:
Bill Gates understood this moment was going to arrive before most people. In fact, he held up a prototype tablet at the now-defunct Comdex trade show back in 2001 and boldly proclaimed: ”The tablet is a PC that is virtually without limits — and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America.”
Of course, that didn’t happen, but Microsoft was undaunted. The company was at it again before Apple launched the gigantically successful iPad in 2010. Microsoft’s project, called Courier, was slated to ship before iPad and might have blunted Apple’s success. Instead, infighting at Microsoft led to delays and eventually to the cancellation of Courier. So instead of leading from the front, Microsoft now comes from behind with the Surface tablet, which launched to much fanfare October 25, to coincide with the debut of Windows 8.
Article goes on about Win8 and the Microsoft "store". Guessing the future, we all see where it's heading.
Another blurb about intel:
But PC replacement cycles have been growing longer for quite awhile as real-world performance improvements of Intel‘s chips has slowed, the global economy has been beaten up more than once, and the marginal benefit of each upgrade cycle has gotten smaller compared to the prior one.