If It does, what effect will it have on our hobby? Maybe this line of looking ahead already has.

Edited March 27, 20188 yr by Jim Young
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The mountain pass, or the all-season pass?

I think I will pass on this one.

Pass my bedtime. -_-

Pass my bedtime. -_-

 

Mr Attwood, I love your signature, it's very entertaining!

 

To the OP, I doubt that it well, for many years to come. There are many PCs still being developed and there will be more to come for probably 10+ years.

Pass my bedtime. -_-

Dear old Ron,

 

Please pass along anything worth passing to whomever is passing by to whom you pass as worth passing to. Pass figuring out now, so time to pass on passing on, and pass out until the night passes the stars to passes the sun thereby passing over the yardarm, whatever the heck that means.

 

Stephen

 

and my other brother,

Dear old Ron,

 

Please pass along anything worth passing to whomever is passing by to whom you pass as worth passing to. Pass figuring out now, so time to pass on passing on, and pass out until the night passes the stars to passes the sun thereby passing over the yardarm, whatever the heck that means.

 

Stephen

 

and my other brother,

Blimey! :huh:

Here is one reason the PC will continue to reign supreme:-

 

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game

It will exist the desktop as their market for people like high end computers and people tweak them like 1930s hot rods. Game console is weaker even entry level desktops for graphics and power

They won't become a thing of the *past for many decades to come. Unless someone develops something that is groundbreaking.

 

Nintendo introduced the Wii. Microsoft introduced the Kinect. Are they a thing of the past? seems so!

 

Take the Kinect for example: there really isn't much in the way of games for it, and who in their right mind is going to stand up in front of a screen and sweat buckets and maybe fall through their ceiling (if you use it upstairs) just to play a game. I think the main reason all these "active style" console additions haven't taken off is because gamers are mainly too lazy in that aspect and just want to relax on their big sofas playing video games. Nothing fancy.

 

I have a PS3, but I use my PC more because it can do more and is easier to do things on. The major difference between a tower PC and a console is that the only thing you can really do with a console is change the HDD - as with a PC you can customize it to your hearts content. Heck they even have contests just to overclock PC CPU's to extreme amounts.

 

Ques: So is the PC a dying breed? Ans: Not in my opinion, there's just too much going for it! 

In actual fact, based on my reading of the videogame press, we're currently in a "golden age" of PC gaming.  Even Next-Gen gaming consoles are barely as powerful as a typical gaming PC, and will immediately start falling behind from day one.

 

On the business front, things like tablets may be fine for travelling, but for day-to-day use aren't going to replace the standard desktop PC for the bulk of staff.  There's just too much a PC can do that a tablet can't, and too much a tablet can do that a company wouldn't want its employees doing.

 

Throw in the growth of Linux - which is not for everyone, I know - as an alternative to MS Windows or MacOs, and PCs are doing just fine.

Here is one reason the PC will continue to reign supreme:-

 

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game

Chris Roberts is a Space Sim God :Love:  :yahoo:

I love how every year the PC is said to die. I know that's a bit a thread digging but it's a relevent subject every year it seems.

 

Such a statement doesn't make sense, it would be like saying microchip is dying or claiming cars are soon to be obsolete. It will always be there and leading, it isn't proprietary, it will evolve and everything else down the line will take adventage of its evolution.

 

Everything is based and developped on computers, it is the genesis and most common denominator of everything that reaches both consumers and professionals. The only thing that would render a computer obsolete and a thing of the past is a more recent computer. About the console/PC debate, any consoles are basically locked specialized computers with a custom operating system and are of course intimately tied to the computer tech evolution. The more advanced and the more efficient computer components gets, the better consoles can be once they the manufacturers feel they can market a new one.

 

The whole world's research, industry, military and general consumer tech market is based on computers. Unless we come across a massive technological breakthrough that would allow us to think and build computers differently the only thing that can really be "a thing of the past" are peripherals and the way we interact with computers (virtual reality, holograms etc). Should we manage to go through with such breakthrough like quantum computing for exemple, it will still be very much "computers".

 

I would not worry to much about the predictions of the death of lap tops. If it should turn out to be true, then we will have billions of pigs flying all over the world and our time will be spent cleaning up and shoveling pig poop and there will be no time for flight simulators. :p0502:

Yes - Definitely up the Khyber.....

 

Brian