future of personal computing

[skisteven1]

I'm writing a speech for my advanced composition class (no, i'm not in high school, *sigh*), and chose my topic to be the fact that personal computing is moving into a parallel direction. Partly because we're approaching the physical limit of how many transistors we can fit on a chip (i think i last heard 25nm electron gate limit? -- we're at what now? 90?). And partly because lets face it, people just don't need more than a (call it) 1Ghz proc to check their email and do a powerpoint. What they do need is the ability to open outlook and excel at the same time w/o slowing down the whole computer.

so.... i've been googling and database searching for like an hour without much success. Can anyone point me to an article/journal/whatever (i need something in the past 6 mos) that can verify any of my claims? or am i just dead wrong?

I also think a keynote speech by Gates or Jobs or someone else who's a clear "expert" in the field would be fine.

thanks!

 

[skisteven1]

bump? i'm so screwed....

 

[andy9o]

yes, yes you are. just do a search at toms hardware.

 

[gigapet]

freshmen hasnt found the school library yet eh?

 

[funkymatt]

this should help a little

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: gigapet
freshmen hasnt found the school library yet eh?

he found the library because he's on a computer. Just can't figure out what all those books are about 😉

 

[skisteven1]

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: gigapet
freshmen hasnt found the school library yet eh?

he found the library because he's on a computer. Just can't figure out what all those books are about 😉

Has to be a source published in the past 6 months hot shot.

After coming up with nothing for several hours, I changed my topic to "how you can help cure cancer using your home computer" (re: folding@home). O🙂

thanks for the tips though funkymatt

 

Originally posted by: gigapet
freshmen hasnt found the school library yet eh?

teh n00b at college likely.