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Pine Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1694 Mississippi, USA Gender:	oldfeller- Intel kills the PC 11/27/12 at 12:16:04 Next Intel will not have a socket... http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/26/intel-kills-off-the-desktop-pcs-go-with-it/ AMD may be giving up as well>>> http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/19/amd-kills-off-big-cores-kaveri-steamroller...
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Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC
Reply #1 - 11/27/12 at 12:52:39

So, the predictions are coming to pass -- the PC as you know it is about over.

Net top devices (small form factor only) will remain for a while, as Intel is pushing their own manufactured Next Unit of Computing which is a net top device.

Look for those pocket riding cell phones that can energize screens and keyboards to come within the next 1-2 years.

You will only need one device then .... your "personal digital assistant"?

What name would you give it.

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28887 L.A. California Gender:	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #2 - 11/27/12 at 13:29:03 Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 11/27/12 at 12:52:39: What name would you give it. Mini Me buhaha buhaha phfft.
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greenmonster Senior Member Offline Hellooooo Nurse! Posts: 420 Vancouver BC Gender:	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #3 - 11/27/12 at 13:33:56 Iris cause it sure as hell isn't going to be Siri!
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28668 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #4 - 11/27/12 at 14:04:14 I just don't like the idea of my computer transmitting from my pants... ...
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28887 L.A. California Gender:	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #5 - 11/27/12 at 14:49:00 Serowbot wrote on 11/27/12 at 14:04:14: I just don't like the idea of my computer transmitting from my pants... ... You gonna start wearing tin foil underpants?
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Reply #6 - 11/27/12 at 15:09:14

Now why would any spry young man mind actually talking directly with his real-brain instead of transferring the words up to the "talking points" machine sitting behind his mouth?

Mebbe with this arrangement his eyes can manage to look all the way up at the girl's eyes when he's talking to her.

.... but can you imagine the words that would be coming from the cell phone's speakers ???

Huh

whups, it's talking again ....

"Hey baby ..... nice (you fill in the blank). You wanna ....."

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Reply #7 - 11/27/12 at 20:09:52

The panic is silly. Laptops used to be socket as well and went BGA some time ago. And there are still laptops. Back in the day (386 or 486) when a socket would actually be around for a while, it made sense. Now, no one upgrades their CPU anymore. When it is time, you need a new motherboard and memory anyway. So, now you will just get a motherboard and CPU combo that is a little more attached...

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Cavi Mike Serious Thumper Offline Thumper n00b Posts: 1005 Rochester, NY Gender:	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #8 - 11/27/12 at 21:32:13 Kills the PC? Sensationalist bull. I buy mobo's and CPU's as one anyways, won't mean much to me. When RAM becomes soldered in and they remove all expansion slots - then the PC will be dead.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #9 - 11/27/12 at 21:50:57 mobo? I dunno nuthin bout no mobo, I Do remember hollerin across the front yard to my dad, as he was about to go in the house.. "Dad? Whats MOFO mean?" He got real quiet & REAL serious & said " Shhhh!" &, a few years later,, I knew;
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Reply #10 - 11/27/12 at 23:01:44

There' too many gamers, I IRace, have a Windows Flight Simulator they train real pilots with, have an RC Flight Simulator and there's millions more out there with me. I IRace with drivers from all over the world, fly RC Combat missions with pilots all over the world. Cant do it on an I Phone. Serious gamers have 3 monitors. Probably will hurt desktop sales but they'll be around a while longer. The good thing is the price will drop on the desktops, they're getting cheaper everyday. My son built mine and its designed for some serious gaming.

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Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC
Reply #11 - 11/28/12 at 02:17:27

Well, give it a few years and I guess we will all see what really happens.

Intel will still be around. HP and AMD may not be (they have announced their plans already).

PC games require Direct X 11 support, right? Got it covered .... already shipping too.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/11/14/arm-unveils-8-core-directx-11-smartpho...

Now Direct X 11.1 is a Windows 8 only exclusive item, with Microsoft not allowing anyone to use it but them.

Guess how many games will be written to/for Direct X11.1? None, unless Microsoft does it with Halo just to jerk everybody around into buying a brand new Xbox or PC or forcing you upgrading to Win8 ....

Huh

.... and the Bald Ballmer would never do that to you, now would he?

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Reference point for NOW

Just scan through this and count the desktop PCs that are for sale, we'll do this again later I suspect and we'll all see if it is any different.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Computers-PCs/Desktop-Computers/abcat0501000.c?id...

I count 10 on the roll bar ..... and only 3 on the Featured section.

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Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC
Reply #12 - 11/29/12 at 01:16:33

Apparently you can run older Windows games under Android using this guy's app.

http://liliputing.com/2012/11/winulator-lets-classic-windows-games-apps-run-o...

If Wine can run it, then likely this trick can run it under Android. The game might would work better with a keyboard and mouse if it were designed to run that way (Android runs with keyboard and mouse natively since 4.0 so this isn't really an issue).

Let's see, I bought this old white box to run a hot new game, Far Cry it was, the first unlimited open area action shooter. Does this old game run on Wine? Yup, Platinum level run on Far Cry 1 and Gold on Far Cry 2.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13613

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Cavi Mike Serious Thumper Offline Thumper n00b Posts: 1005 Rochester, NY Gender:	Re: oldfeller- Intel kills the PC Reply #13 - 11/29/12 at 01:54:58 Yeah but can it run Crysis?
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Reply #14 - 11/29/12 at 06:47:59

Cavi Mike wrote on 11/27/12 at 21:32:13:

Kills the PC? Sensationalist bull. I buy mobo's and CPU's as one anyways, won't mean much to me. When RAM becomes soldered in and they remove all expansion slots - then the PC will be dead.

My last two rigs each ended up with CPU upgrades. My current rig was built in Jan 2006 with a AMD Phenom II X2 550, early this year I bumped that to the AMD Phenom X4 980. Neither of those were top of the line when I bought them, yet both are very good for my purpose. But I think the real fear is lack of choice... Intel COULD decide not to sell CPU's independent of THIER motherboards. You like ASUS? MSI? Gigibyte?.. too bad.. if you want Intel then your motherboard will be Intel. Further the design will be what main demand is, so if Dell wants 10,000 ho-hum motherboards then Intel will make that.. price on that will be great. Want an UBER fast motherboard that is steamlined with no built in VGA... or support for pata? either it wont exist... or you will pay out the nose.

I do not consider laptops having/not having sockets an apple to apples comparison with desktops, Laptops are 'more' proprietary and much more general purpose than what a homebuilt desktop would commonly be.

My game of choice is still being tweaked ( just released) but is already known to make many a CPU beg for mercy (including mine). No way, could a little phone even pretend to be workable.

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