Torchwood!
Ooh, a new game!
Sorry, in the context of the thread, I meant laptops as a thing will be obsolete before either desktops or the handhelds and tablets that are on either side of them size/portability-wise.
Are we envisioning (heh) a mass of humanity with 20/10 vision or no need for portable computing on the go? Laptops are great for portable large screen computing needs.
OK, once goggles become mainstream, laptops might go away in favor of new technology past even tablets, i.e. boxes that can be even tinier and/or more powerful than tablets by focusing on computing power rather than display and displaying on goggles (with a Wii-like interface for input). But I don’t see this happening “soon”.
Probably HD televisions. 4K’s seem to be around the corner. Now, you they cost an arm and leg but probably not in 1-2 years anymore. The gab between HD and 4K seem to be more more smaller than Hd and tube television.
I predict 4K will be a harder sell to the general public, most of whom are just now figuring out that their new widescreen HDTV (a) won’t do crap to improve non-HD content and (b) is designed to be disposable rather than repairable.
Gotcha. Yes, I agree, full-size laptops will disappear before desktops or tablets would. But none will go agree “soon.”
Yeah, you’re right. That’s because end users are bombarded with all these new mega awesome ultra super cutting-edge features with their catchy names. People can’t really get their head around these things and thus they ask some newbie at Best Buy who tells them how great all these features are and so on…
I think that companies (Sony, Samsung, Lg, Panasonic and whatnot) will force their products into the market and in the end you wind up buying it. And it seems that they already started with PS4 and XBOX One.
Combine that with the fact that for most people’s living rooms and eyes, we’re getting into the realm of “not really much of an improvement”. Sure, on paper there’s a lot more resolution, but a lot of the detail stuff on my 50" 1080p TV is too small to really see, even if it was in 4k resolution.
Plus, there’s still a lot of stuff produced in lesser flavors of HD, so until we get to a point where everything’s at least 1080 of some stripe, there won’t be much use for 4k televisions.
Even streaming won’t help- it wouldn’t be much good to radically increase bandwidth needs on people whose connections can mostly barely handle HD streams to begin with.
I think you’re over-exaggerating here. By a lot.
Ten years old is 2003…that means AGP graphics card, single-core, 32-bit CPU, etc…
Unless you’ve replaced things incrementally, in which case we’ve run into a Ship of Theseus argument and I’m disqualifying your statement that it’s ten years old, there’s no way your PC can run modern games like Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty Black Ops, Civ V, etc…
On the off chance it can run some of them, it would be at the lowest settings, and probably still be a slog-fest. A modern gaming laptop can run all of those easily at medium settings, and some can do high settings just fine, too.
Yeah, my upper-middle-tier desktop that I got for college in 2004 was obsolete by the time I graduated in 2008. Coincidentally, last desktop anyone in my family ever owned.
But less than before. And it’s more difficult to buy them here in Thailand. The last couple of times we checked into that before traveling abroad, we were told we had to go to some other branch far away if we really wanted to buy some. We ended up just blowing it off and just taking a bunch of cash (to Japan) or relying on our ATM card (US and Vietnam).
you’re right, i don’t know what happened there.
A four-lobed hybrid of wheat and rye. A perennial also, if I’m not mistaken. It can trace its origins back to 20th-century Canada.
WRussia.
The 10 Minute Maile-mail address that the next person grabs.
Not sure if it’s an item and it’s first world, but internet cafés. Even a few years ago when I was travelling I would desperately be looking for a place to check email. Now that more and more people have smart phones, you tend to just look for a WiFi connection. Yes, there are still many people without smartphones but those tend to be the people who are not hell-bent on being always connected to the internet anyway. I think soon there just might not be enough of a market anymore to warrant a place dedicated to internet on-the-go.
I thought these things were ridiculous years ago, but in my travels I’ve seen a lot of them and they still seem quite popular. I think there’s a social aspect and I think a lot of lower income people see these places as a sort of ‘computer rental’ shop.
They are handy if you need to print something out, especially when travelling, for example. When all bookings can be done without a hard copy, and smartphones get cheaper to own and run, I can see them dying out, but until then they’re pretty useful.
It’s a lot cheaper to visit one every now and again than to run a home printer.