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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Going Beyond The Desktop PC

Posted by Hooch Tan in "Digital Home News" @ 11:00 AM

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-fea...-horrible-death

"It repeats the phrase "Moore's law" like a broken record, pledges allegiance to x86 architecture on a daily basis, and can't remember the last time an exciting press release was e-mailed to lazy journalists getting high off their own incompetence. Seriously, folks. The 8086 was launched in 1978. How much longer are we going to be held hostage to an aging, decaying architecture whose golden years have passed into distant memory?"

It had to happen eventually. As computing power kept increasing and computing devices kept shrinking, there would come a point where we are no longer shackled to our desks. In a world where we have enough computing power in our phones that could compete with what our best desktops could do less than a decade ago, it no longer seems to be how fast something is anymore, but what can it do for you. We live in a world where, at a cost, we can be connected to the world and harness almost unlimited resources. Now it is much more a matter of how we interact with this incredible resource and what we make use of it. Despite what some might say, this is probably the golden age of computing. It may not be the golden age for PC computing, if one thinks of PCs as traditional desktops that you sat down and typed away, but computing in general is becoming more exciting by the day. One of the shifts that I have seen is an ever growing split between consuming and production. The division between consumer based devices and business based devices is probably going to increase where what we have at home will seem completely unrelated to what we use at work and it probably is a good thing. With the separation comes more focused design which is where the next frontier really is.


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